MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland Historical Society held a Christmas event at the Brown-Dorsey House where guests could see what Christmas was like back in the 1900's.
“The house was built by a man named Zachary Taylor Brown for his family. He lived in it and then his daughter lived in the home after them, so two generations," Midland Historical Society president Jim Collett said. "In the late 60s, we acquired this home as a historic home, and we've had it ever since.”
A house as old as this one, however, is going to eventually need some repairs. and while those repairs have been costly so far it is slowly getting back to its old glory.
“We are attempting to do restoration of all of the exterior, and we're on the last piece, which is all of the siding that has to be restored," Collett said. "We restored gingerbread, we've restored the windows. We've done a great deal of work already, and so we want to bring it back to the way it looks when they built it.”
So much effort is being put into the Brown-Dorsey House because it’s a unique piece of history that is special to the Tall City.
“This is the only house of its type here and may have been even back then, it's called Folk, Victorian. and so there's nothing like it," Collett said. "There's no opportunity to really appreciate the past and how long and complex middle its past has been.”
Besides, it isn’t every day someone can just time travel to the early 1900’s, while quite literally taking a walk through history.
“It's a chance to immerse yourself in history," Collett said. "It's one thing to just read a book or look at a picture, but when you're three dimensionally in that actual space, with that furniture, with the furnishings and the things the family had, then it's literally like a trip back in time.”