521 Earl Garrett Street

County tax records indicate this house at 521 Earl Garrett Street was built in 1945.  That may be about right.  The first record I can find of this house is in the 1947 city directory when the home was owned by Lt. (later Capt.) H. E. Wright.  His wife was Jessie Evelyn Wright. When they divorced in 1951 she got the house.  In February 1953, she remarried to Wylie Enmon Lovelady. They lived here another couple of years.  
Later occupants include F. R. Stevenson, who rented in 1956 and Rev. and Mrs. Powell A. Smith who served as pastor of the First Christian Church for four years before retiring in 1959 and moving to this house.  He then served as the Protestant chaplain at the V. A. Hospital.  Later Mary and Val Pierce Gohmert owned it from about 1972.  He died in 1977, she continued to live here until 1984.  It has been a law office since 1985.