518 Pearl Street- Milton and Ruth Penry House

Milton Penry (1894-1959) was born near Forney, Texas and his family moved to Denton in 1904. Ruth (1903-1991) was a native of Denton. Milton secured W. L. Overall to build this home in 1916 prior to his service in WW I. Milton served with the Army Air Corps demobilization detachment based at Camp Travis in Austin. The couple married in Denton in 1923. Two years later, they sold their home to his widowed mother Ellen Douglas Penry in 1925 where she lived until her death in 1958. Ruth and Milton and moved to 517 Parkway, directly behind their former home. He served as Denton Postmaster from 1942 until his death in 1959. The house is characterized by a central inset entrance porch and a very low horizontal dormer.