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WORK DEBIT
DENTON REC
Peggy Capps, right, tells Jennjfer Darrow a story in Ms. equipment. High Noon Productions ww
.Capps' back yard as cameraman Rick Trujillo sets up his Wednesday to tape a show called 'IfWcHiistoric home will appear
By Matthew Zabel
Staff writer
t Take one step inside the 74-year-old
.home at 915 W. Oak St. and you might
think you're getting a Denton history
lesson.
Take two more steps into the foyer,
and your thoughts are confirmed.
This 1926 home has been !a running
'tory lesson for its owners, Lee and
gy Capps, since they bought it in
2 and immediately began the resto-
ration process.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Capps shared
much of her acquired knowledge withJennifer Darrow and Rick Trujillo, who
were in Denton filming a segment for "If
Walls Could Talk," which airs on cable's
Home and Garden Television Network.
"There's something about owning an
old home," Mrs. Capps said. "In a new
home, there's not any past to it. In an
old home, you inherit things from the
people who came before you, and that's
special. It gives the house some history.
It's a feeling - not something you can
explain."
The Cappses are the third family to
own this Gregorian revival home with
evenly spaced double-hung windowsand a central portico suppo:
ters of fluted Tuscan colunn
Ms. Darrow, a segment i
High Noon Productions, wh
the show for HGTV, said t
home fits the show's theme
cause most of their know
home came after they move
'It's about the things
found. through research, t:
facts they have found and t
ing to people."
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Denton Chamber of Commerce. [Collection of photocopied news clippings from Denton Record Chronicle], text, 1998; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2190154/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.