9030 aldwick drive

Plans By:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Contractor:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Owner of Land:  John C Petteway

Building Permit Filed:  March 1960

Cost to Build:  $15,000

List Price:  $599,000

Days on Market:  5

Bedrooms:  4

Bathrooms:  3

Fireplaces:  1

Pool:  No

Garage:  Yes

Covered Parking:  2  

Stories:  2

Foundation:  Pier & Beam  

Roof Type:  Gable

Roof Material:  Comp Shingles

Authenticated in City of Dallas Building Department records.

Building Permit or ledger entry available on request.

Plans By:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Contractor:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Owner of Land:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Building Permit Filed:  July 1963

Cost to Build:  $15,980

List Price:  429,000

Days on Market:  65

Bedrooms:  3

Bathrooms:  2

Fireplaces:  1

Pool:  Yes

Garage:  No

Covered Parking:  2  

Stories:  1

Foundation:  Pier & Beam  

Roof Type:  Gable

Roof Material:  Comp Shingles

Authenticated in City of Dallas Building Department records.

Building Permit or ledger entry available on request.

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78+ Acres, 4 houses.

Certificate of occupancy issued for all houses in 1965

All houses were built by Jack Wilson d/b/a Ju-Nel Homes with:

 - Pier & Beam Foundation

 - Western red cedar exterior walls and on many interior walls for 2 houses

 - Composition shingle roof

 - Chimney / fireplace (except caretaker house)

 - Central HVAC - electric AC, gas furnace (main house has boiler)

 All houses have a screened porch except caretaker house which has none and cottage which has two porches with concrete floors

Main House:

 - Two story - approximately 3,399 sqft

 - Three bedrooms, two full baths, 3 half baths

 - Cabana ("pool room") approximately 1,978 sqft with two full baths

 - Brick floors downstairs, hardwood and carpet upstairs, vinyl tile in 1 bath

 - Bedroom and utility room walls:  sheet rock

 - Semi-detached 2 car garage

Cottage:

Single story ranch style home - approximately 2,139 sqft

 - Walls:  sheet rock

 - Floors:  vinyl tile or carpet

 - Attached 2 car garage

Guest House:

 - Single story - approximately 1,219 sqft

 - Two bedrooms, two baths

 - Detached 2 car garage

 - Brick floors throughout

Caretaker House:

 - Approximately 1,000 sqft

 - One bedroom, one bath

 - Carpet and ceramic tile floors

No public records available.  Well documented that Jack Wilson modified original concept by Pratt, Box & Henderson.

Due to its size, design elements and architectural integrity, the BeckettHouse has earned the distinction of Super J.

Property Details and New Hope Farm history is courtesy of Bryan Schmode

NEW HOPE FARM:  A Brief History

On December 1, 1913, Hazel Offutt Samuell and his wife Sallie Worthington Samuell purchased from O.L Hargrove 80 acres of the 640 acre Jon Johnson survey in Dallas county, Texas.

Hazael Offutt Samuell was born on Cane Run in Scott County, Kentucky on June 20, 1844.  He married Sallie Worthington of Leota Landing, Mississippi October 28, 1876.  After the birth of their first son, William Worthington Samuell, on January 13, 1876, H.O. and Salliemoved to New Hope, Texas.  H.O. raised shorthorn cattle.  In 1906, H.O. Samuell became the Police Commissioner for the City of Dallas.

H.O. Samuell died on February 20, 1922.  His will specified that his granddaughter, Hazel Williams was to inherit the New Hope Farm.  Hazael's mother, Elizabeth (Bettie), was H.O.'s and Sallie's only daughter.  Hazel Williams, oldest of three daughters born to Bettie Samuell and her husband Harry Williams, was born on December 28, 1911.

H.O. and Sallie Samuell's oldest son, W.W. Samuell, M.D, a surgeon, died after a short illness on December 12, 1937.  He bequeathed land to the City of Dallas for parks, including the Samuell Farm North Park, now leased to the town of Sunnyvale.

Until the early 1960's, New Hope Farm was leased to T.M. (Bub) Anderson.  The late Mr. Anderson and his wife Wenanah owned the property which adjoins New Hope Farm on the west.  Mr. Anderson raised cattle.  He used the New Hope Farm for additional pasture for his animals and for growing crops to feed his animals.

Hazael William's husband, Thomas G. Beckett Jr., and investment banker, one of the founders of First Southwest Company, died in Dallas on January 13, 1956 at age 44.  In the early 1960's Mrs. Beckett began making plans to build a home on her New Hope Farm property, which community, on February 26, 1953 had been merged with other local communities and incorporated as the Town of Sunnyvale.

Dallas architects Pratt, Box and Henderson designed and Mrs. Beckett first build a guest house.  The builder for all three of the houses ont he New Hope Farm property was Dallas resident Jack Wilson d/b/a Ju-Nel Homes.  Wilson is well known for his mid-century modern residences of which the main house is a good example.

In 1965, the same year Mrs. Beckett began to reside on the New Hope Farm property, she entered into an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture which turned New Hope Farm into a wildlife preserve.  Throughout her ninety-four years life, Mrs. Beckett cared for animals.  She kept binoculars at the ready for birding as she walked the property.

Mrs. Beckett was a writer.  Growing up in Dallas, published in 1985, is a lively account of life in North Texas in the first half of the twentieth century, much of it about Mrs. Beckett's life on the New Hope Farm property.

Plans By:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Contractor:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Owner of Land:  Ju-Nel Homes Inc

Building Permit Filed:  Monday, March 9, 1962

Cost to Build:  $16,500

List Price:  $399,000

Days on Market:  40

Bedrooms:  3

Bathrooms:  2

Fireplaces:  1

Pool:  No

Garage:  Yes

Covered Parking:  2  

Stories:  1

Foundation:  Pier & Beam  

Roof Type:  Gable

Roof Material:  Comp Shingles

Authenticated in City of Dallas Building Department records.

Building Permit or ledger entry available on request.