Purpose

These pages will be used to collect and document information about the home of Mrs. Ninnie Baird and her family from 1910 until 1918. The documentation may be verbal, official documents, or photographs of the home. Because the Baird family rented and lived in the home between 1910, two years after Mrs Baird's Bread was founded and 1918, when her first large bread factory opened on Sixth and Terrell, facts about the home are tough to locate. No tax or property records are to be found because the Bairds rented the home.

For the people that know Ninnie Baird lived in the little house at the corner of Cactus and Washington, it seems the fact should be common knowledge - that "everyone just knows". These people also seem to believe that it is very well documented that she lived there. There seems to be firm, but limited evidence of this:

• Four Fort Worth City Directories (1911, 1914, 1916, and 1918)
• Two Fort Worth Star-Telegram articles (1956, 1977)
• A strong hint in a book
• Text and a diagram from a document called "The Mrs Baird's Story"
• A Texas State document
• An article in The Dallas Morning News
  

But we're still trying to find more documentation of her residence at this house - especially any old photographs.

We are also attempting to share what we've found and to give an opportunity to others to contribute to this documentation. Contributions can also include corrections to any information I've listed. Newspaper articles and other documents will also be transcribed so they may more readily found through search engines.