The Nissen House in Lewisville is probably going to be saved from the wrecking ball because the Lewisville Town Council voted to loan the Lewisville Historical Society $2 for every $1 they raise.  The Nissen House was purchased by two dentists who were going to raze it and put a modern building for their practice on the site. They’ve agreed to give the house to the Historical Society if it will move the house to a new location.

This is the second time the house has been sold in the last few years.  Celeste and I actually did a walk through a few years ago and considered trying to cobble together a deal where we would buy it and convert it to a combination reading room and tea/coffee shop/bakery.  Apparently the house was used as a bakery years ago.  We decided against it because it would have taken quite a bit of money to get it up to code for such an operation and being relatively new to the area we decided that it was a little rash to take on a project like that at the time. We might have been able to do it if we’d recruited some investors, but we weren’t interested in doing that either.

Someone else ended up buying the property and cleaning it up a bit, but he didn’t seem to have an overall plan for it and ended up selling it to the dentists. If the Historical Society does go for the loan deal then it looks like the town will have a new attraction in a couple of years.