309 Amarillo Street- John T. and Lula M. Baird House

John T. (1876-1943) and Lula Mae Baird (1881-1968) contracted with I. T. Naugle to build their home in 1919. John was a native of Upshur County, Texas where he met Lula. They married in Gilmer, Texas in 1902. John became a real estate agent in Upshur County where they started their family of five children. When they moved to Denton in 1919, they rented a home on Avenue A prior to the completion of their new home. By 1930, the Bairds had moved to Dallas and rented out their former residence until 1941 when E. B and Mary Joy Spalding purchased the house. The nonhistoric cast iron porch supports have been recently replaced with tapered box columns on brick piers, while the porch’s gable end was opened and now contains an Asian character motif.