Thistle Hill Historical Marker
Michael Kaufmann
ID:1275440
Texas History
11/18/2014

Electra was born near Decatur, Wise County, Texas, on 6 January 1882 at the ranch home, known as "El Castile," of her grandfather Daniel Waggoner. She went to Southwestern University and then transferred an graduated to Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee. Thistle Hill was built for Electra Waggoner, a daughter to a cattle baron. In 1901, Electra met Albert Buckman Wharton, a man from Philadelphia while visiting the Himalayas. They had gotten married in 1902 in Decatur, Texas. Electra named it Thistle Hill, also it has been said the making of the home cost somewhere from $38,000 to $46,000 when finished in 1904. It is Located at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Worth Texas.
Sanguinet and Staats were the 2 who designed it. It was a Colonial style mansion per say. Its 11,000 square feet, eighteen room home Covered in red brick with cast stone trim. Semicircular rails are over the main entrance of the house/mansion. Has built in closets throughout the house. Woodwork inside represented by an Oak double staircase and entry hall. Thistle house has Tiffany Palladian windows, and 5 full bathrooms an eight fireplaces.
Waggoner family gained their wealth from ranching and …show more content…
Waggoner split his estate to his children, Electra received cattle, land, and horses that was worth about $2 million. The Wharton’s sold Thistle Hill house/Mansion they built and moved to Vernon at their ranch. A man they say was a self-made millionaire, and was in real estate named Winfield Scott, bought the mansion for $90,000and after that is when the remodeling happened that he had done to it. The remodeling was said to have cost around $100,000. The Scotts replaced the wood in the Thistle Hill mansion with iron. They even changed the roof, even the columns you see today on the front porch were him. Also the tile was changes to green tile supposedly coming from