Nash, Thomas J. and Elizabeth, Farm

Nash Farm is a 5.2-acre remnant of a North Texas farmstead on the eastern edge of downtown Grapevine, now surrounded by residential streets. The core is a two-story, center-hall I-house built about 1867 with a rear ell, wood clapboard siding and sandstone piers. A transverse crib barn from about 1905, a brick well from about 1910 and a family cemetery from about 1878 also contribute. Thomas J. and Elizabeth Nash arrived from Kentucky and acquired 110 acres in 1859, later expanding to about 295 acres, farming crops and raising livestock until the family sold in 1927. The house was heavily altered around 1950 and later restored. The property is considered significant as a rare surviving 19th-century farmstead in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and as an example of the I-house form. Today the City of Grapevine and the Grapevine Heritage Foundation operate it as a museum, with demonstration crops planted by volunteers.