The building permit for the house is dated July 31, 1956, the sixth year of the second-longest drought in Texas history. Allan Shivers was the governor of Texas, a Democrat, as were both U.S. senators, Lyndon B. Johnson and Ralph Yarborough. Mass inoculations were being held to stop the spread of polio. It was the … Continue reading The Story of How Midcentury Modern Came to Farmers Branch