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Show The former Harrison home built in the 1 wly 1900's and providing shelter for """t seven families will soon be torn own making way for modern welopments. nHCCOrding to Bob Dearman, developer wer the Naples Development Corpora- 1 "le two acres with the house will be Tug Naples Center. It will join the acres already purchased to build the aples Center, a shopping place. 1l'r- Dearman said there will be some "'lential area on the back part of the acres but mostly it will be for topping. Mr. Dearman said they hope to be JKl"g on the dirt work within the next Lays such as work on the roads, put-s put-s ui the water and sewer. J IjKermit Harrison family, a fami-jj fami-jj e'ght, moved into the house about Js ago. They moved from a one-" one-" house into this one which had eight lamiS 3t the time- 0ver the years- the ''y remodeled the home adding an ts. When they finished, they had 14 ibleV0tal in their home- They were U. t0 add a family room, four ll,e ?""s. a storage room, and enlarge ''Chen by lowering the ceilings. obuii!frd Harrison was the contractor lld the house in the early 1900's. He built the house for Willard Williams. Kermit tells the story about how his folks would buy milk from them and he would get to go get it. He would hop on his horse and away he would go. Because of his size and the size of his horse, he would have to stand on the porch in order to get upon his horse every time he went to pick up the milk. "When it was built, it was the biggest and best built in the valley," said Kermit. The Kermit Harrison family bought it from the Fred Reynolds family and they bought it from someone else down the line and so on. "There have been about seven families live in the house," said Kermit. Kermit said when the Nickels family had the home, they used to have a two-headed two-headed calf in the attic. He said they had people quite often still coming to see that calf when they bought the house. The bricks were made by William Gardner in the Davis area. The house used us-ed to have 12 foot ceilings and they lowered them again and put them down to the top of the windows. It made the same size rooms upstairs as downstairs. Most of the remodeling took about two years. "There are a lot of memories there," said Yvonne Harrison. "The pine tree was only two feet high when we moved there." Kermit and Yvonne had only been married four years and had one child when they first moved into the home. They bought the place and the one acre of ground with it. Later they were able to buy another acre. Kermit said they enjoyed working together as a family on all of that remodeling. The Harrisons sold their home to one of their sons, Lamond. Because of the highway near the home, the traffic buildup in the mornings, and the safety of their little ones, they decided to sell the home. These two acres will be added to the Naples Center. Mrs. Harrison said the house was really real-ly cool in the summer and cool in the winter when the wind would blow because of the adobe. The house has a rock foundation with brick walls with adobe on the inside of the walls. There used to be stoves in every room they had. In order to have heat in a particular room, they would have to build a fire. Yvonne said most of their lives were spent in that home. With making way for the modern developments, they will only on-ly have their memories to hold onto. r K i ' - i I ; J "J :' '" - - - I - 4 ' 1 r ' J T " x"T 1 rV'' - THE FORMER HARRISON HOME will soon be torn down making way for the new Naples Center, a shopping center. The ground in the 4 back is already being leveled making way for the modern developments. |