The Wren's Nest - 1870

This home was a wedding gift for Lucy Bills, the youngest daughter of The Pillar's owner John Houston Bills. Lucy married Wilbur Armistead, the editor of The Bolivar Bulletin. The home received its name because a nesting wren held up final painting of the home in 1870.

The house was designed by Fletcher Sloan an architect well known for his Swiss chalet cottages. It originally consisted of four rooms on the ground floor with a detached kitchen, which later was connected to the house. Fletcher Sloan designed the home in the Victorian architecture style sen in the intricate dental work, called "gingerbread trim".

The Armisteads sold the property to the Parran Family who owned it for three generations. Then it was acquired by the Mask family in 1939.

Summer of 1894 - Parran family and friends