Colleyville, Texas

  The Webb House was built in 1914 by John Rueben Webb to replace his family home, which had burned. The house stands in what was once the settlement of Bransford, one of the early communities that would later become known as Colleyville. An example of a regional housing design prominent in the early 20th century, the Webb House features a one-and-one-half story, gabled-roof, T-plan design, with a full-hipped roof porch on columns. The pair of central doors, flanked by double-hung windows with small space windows under the eaves, was typical of its era.
  Mr. Webb, a Tennessee native, came to Bransford in 1897. He served as a section laborer and section foreman with the Cotton Belt Railroad for 44 years, retiring in 1941. The owner of Bransford’s last general store, Mr. Webb also was a trustee of the local Woodmen of the World, commander of the Maccabee Lodge, trustee of the Pleasant Run School, and the unofficial “mayor” of Bransford. He also managed the Grapevine Rabbit Twisters, a well-known local fiddle band popular at the time.
  The Webb House was restored through a community effort to preserve the home as an example of the regional architecture of the early 1900s, and for its historic association with Bransford and the Cotton Belt Railroad. The restored house was dedicated on December 21, 2002.