Friendswood Museums - October 5th, 2024

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Visit the Perry Museum, open the first Saturday of the month, 10am-2pm

The three sided History of Friendswood fig sculpture is complete

The people gather around a fig tree to pluck, eat & stay dry from the rain

The Brown Family started Friendswood in 1895

The Perry Family bible on the center table & Fwood History books back left

Step into the Front Room left of the entry room w/original chairs & lamps

Original organ, lamp, and restoration photos of the Perry House

Step into the kitchen with a cream separator in front of the back window

Stove, work table with porcelin top and clothes washing machine

The boys room is at the top of the stairs w/recently added typewriter

Girls room to the right, curtained room is the master bedroom

Hand made butterfly quilt with postcard album on photos

Master bedroom with crocheted bedspread made w/string from sugar sacks

Dressing table and sewing table with treadle Singer sewing machine

The doorless closet has one of Mary Perry's dresses on display

Francis, Mary and Ethel Perry stayed in the girls room

All 3 graduated from the Academy & attended Friends U in Wichita, KS

The girls room was the only one with a closing door

Head down the stairs with the original wall paper display

Work on replacing original wallpaper is underway

Step outside and check out the landscaping added for dinner parties

Boy Scout Eagle Project is building a cover for the horse drawn wagon

Dinner party platform added before the garden beds

View of the kitchen side of the house with landscaping pavers

View of the Perry House museum from Spreading Oaks

Further west down Spreading Oaks is the Friendswood School Museum

Originally built as an All Grades School in 1939

The first class room is now a conference room with photos past & present

Same room has couches, chairs & plates with the original school & Academy

Head down the hall I walked in the late 1970s as the Junior High

First room to the right has the history of Friendswood School Buildings

Westwood Elementary built in 1967 and Friendswood High School in 1970

The new Junior High, which emptied this building out, was built in 2010

Next room down the hall on the left has the history of Friendswood

The 1950 Friends Church organ and Post Office Boxes before mail delivery

Photos of students in the All Grades School from the 1940s to 1960s

Map Friendswood residents locations w/red rectangle the All Grades school

Next room on the left is a refurbished 1940's classroom

Next room on the left is dedicated to Ms. Kennedy's Broadway Shows

Posters, props, wardrobes and awards for all the musicals presented

Next room dedicated to the Fwood football team who won AA State in 1973

Baseball team display and cheerleader gear and letter jackets

First girl to play varsity football scored 88 points 2021-2023 seasons

4 Fwood players benched 300 pounds by 1976, Scott could bench 425 in 1983

Next room has Friendswood Band, Wranglettes & Homecoming Court displays

Photos of each homecoming queen on the right from the 1940s and on

Class of 1985 photo has Ms. Davis, Ms. Rue (funeral 9/27) & Frau Phillips

Find a box a homework available for pickup from the early 1980s

Find a folder of friend Pat's homework submitted when he was 14

Pat disagreed w/his Dimensions assignment grade from Ms. Mickler

Dad and I get our photo taken and posted online on the way out

Classmates here for tonight's 40th reunion also visited & posed