It’s safe to say that Alice Ann Street had good taste in fashion, jewelry, art and the accouterments of home entertaining based on the buzz surrounding her estate sale.
Street died in February and her estate is selling the personal items she collected over her lifetime of 82 years. The sale is at her home in Graham, about 90 miles west of Fort Worth, at 924 Kintner Drive in Graham. (The location was held secret until 6 p.m. Thursday for security reasons.)
Dallas-based Janelle Stone Estate Services made an exception to hold a sale out of town because of the quality and quantity of the goods. The sale starts at 9 a.m. on Friday and continues Saturday.
The 5-bedroom, 4-bath 5,573-square-foot house is packed with designer and luxury goods. There are also lower-priced costume jewelry, books, household goods and a garage with tools and fishing equipment that’s for sale.
Where did she learn her good taste?
“She just always had it,” said Joani Street, a cousin. “She would find something she liked and would start collecting. It could be frogs, antique canes or matchbook holders, but they were all detailed and top of the line.”
Her home, at first glance, was too much to take in all at once, Street said, “But the magical details and her stories would draw you in.”
Street was born in Fort Worth and graduated from Paschal High School. Then went on to Southern Methodist University. At SMU she was a Kappa Kappa Gamma, historically one of the strongest sororities on campus and known back in Street’s time and priding themselves still today on being fashionistas. She married into a founding family of Graham which was successful in the oil business.
Street lived in Graham for 59 years and was involved in planning and building the Graham Public Library and was on the Graham Hospital board for several years at a time.
Around Graham, she was known for her “random acts of kindness,” mostly done anonymously, according to her obituary.
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