Woods House

Woods House on 1015 Hill Street, Courtesy of Denton Office of Culture & History

The Woods House was one of the last remaining Quakertown houses in Southeast Denton. William Evelyn Woods purchased the house in Quakertown for $600 during the first World War. He rented it out to residents while he remained on his farm located near Pilot Knob in Argyle.

In 1921, William Evelyn Woods and his wife Alberta decided to move from the farm to the house in Denton. When the City of Denton began forcing residents of Quakertown to relocate to make way for a public park in 1921, the Woods family sold their property and bought 8.8 acres in the Solomon Hill neighborhood. The Woods House has a permanent home at the Denton County Historical Park on Carroll Blvd. in Denton.

William Evelyn Woods (seated in the top row, far right) and his classmates at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, circa 1910

Citations:Denton County Office of History & Culture's Facebook Page, accessed April 25, 2022, www.facebook.com/chosmuseum/posts/throwbackthursday-to-william-evelyn-woods-of-argyle-tx-and-his-classmates-at-wil/1724586514389774/
“Current Projects | Denton County, TX.” Dentoncounty, www.dentoncounty.gov/316/Current-Projects. Accessed 26 Apr. 2022.
Rardin, Devin. “One of Last Quakertown Houses Moved to Historical Park.” North Texas Daily, 20 Mar. 2018, www.ntdaily.com/one-of-last-quakertown-houses-moved-to-historical-park. Designed by Linh Tran and compiled by Rodney Jones in Web & App Design 2021