The Thistlewood House, 1908

Measurements: approximately ~5" × 5" × 5"

Built when horse-drawn buggies still rattled past and neighbors waved from porches instead of telephones.

Its foundation was cut from old-growth timber, thick enough to hold back a century of Texas summers. The floors groaned like storytellers, each board fluent in secrets: children’s footsteps racing to supper, Sunday shoes hesitating at the front door, laughter echoing through hallways lined with wainscot and wallpaper roses.

Windows tall and narrow framed thunderstorms as grandly as they framed hydrangeas in bloom. The staircase curved not for beauty alone, but for the drama of arrivals, the anticipation of departures.

This was not simply a house, it's truly stories wrapped in four walls.