Fort Worth Magazine
The property that has sat in infamy off Hulen Street for 45 years is being turned to rubble.
Demolition teams are on-site at the former Cullen Davis mansion, best known as the site where a gunman killed two people and seriously wounded two others, including Davis' wife, Priscilla, in an ambush on a late Monday night in 1976.
Developers announced in July that the structure, encompassing more than 10,000-square feet, would be torn down and the property redeveloped.
Davis was charged and acquitted of the murders of 30-year-old Stan Farr, a former basketball player at TCU, and 12-year-old Andrea Wilborn, Priscilla’s daughter from a previous marriage. Davis said he was at a movie theater, alone, the night of the slayings, and as recently as five years ago maintained that alibi.
“Wasn’t me,” he said to a WFAA/Ch. 8 reporter when asked about the intruder. Davis is 88.
The Davis estate stretched 181 acres from the western boundary of Colonial Country Club to Hulen Street. The mansion’s architect Albert Komatsu, who designed the home in the late 1960s, called it a “rambling-type home of contemporary design with a southwest regional flavor.
“It presents varied vistas over the landscaping and the property. It is a very open plan with ceilings of varying heights,” he said in 1976.
In just a few weeks’ time, the mansion, which over the years has been home to restaurants and party places, will be no more.
However, the fascinating aura of mystery surrounding the place — as well as what happened there — will live on well beyond the life of the last fragment of stone swept away.
