Architectural marvel in Frayser is up for sale
The 1946 Bauhaus-style house-turned-doctor’s-office built by Maxwell McCall Millstead in Frayser is for sale eight years after Dana Gabrion undertook its restoration to its original appearance. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Eight years after she bought a Frayser landmark, Dana Gabrion has reached a crossroads with the distinctive and rare Bauhaus structure.
“I’ve done what I can,” Gabrion told The Daily Memphian. “I feel like I was the foster parent to help take care of it and make sure it’s taken care of until it gets to its ultimate person.”
Gabrion is selling the house at 3590 Thomas St. after an eight-year odyssey that moved the circa 1946 structure closer to its origins as a home built by Maxwell McCall Millstead as his home more than a decade before Frayser was annexed by the City of Memphis.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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