If my wife were writing on this blog, I could tell her about the W.H. Stark House, that it's a Victorian landmark in Orange Texas, and she'd write pages on the subject. When we met John Byrne on his original farewell tour years ago (now, now, as Sean Connery said "never say never" about a similar situation) that's all she wanted to ask him about. Nothing about his comic book work. Nothing about co-creating Kitty Pryde, her favorite character, even though Byrne based it on an actual person by the same name that he knew. She just wanted to ask him about the Victorian house he moved into. She just loves the home interiors. And then there was the time we went to the Winchester Mystery House. While she doesn't have as much interest in the paranormal as she did back then, the architecture of the house was a wonder for her to tour.

And the W.H. Stark House is designed in the Queen Anne architectural style, the house features a distinctive turret, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork in cypress and long leaf yellow pine. Today, the three-story structure stands much as it did at the turn of the 20th century, with fifteen rooms of original family furnishings, personal effects and decorative arts, including antique rugs, original textiles, silver, cut glass, and antique porcelain. Also featured are the Stark family’s impressive collections of American Brilliant Period cut glass, pressed and pattern glass, milk glass, porcelains, and other 18th and 19th century decorative accessories. Once she sees the web site and the house, she'll be wondering when we can go down to Texas to see it.