207 W. REAGAN ST - BUILT 1897 (LOOK RIGHT)

This two-story frame house was built for Mrs. Belle Mitchell Joost. From 1912, it was the home of Joel C. Duncan, a native of Tennessee, and his wife Della Imrie Duncan, a native of Minnesota. Mr. Duncan, who enlarged the home, came to Palestine in 1884 and established a grocery and feed store that operated in downtown for fifty-one years. He was also a banker and served as mayor of Palestine 1927-31.