PamelaTX

I'm coming in late on this too ... but it rang a bell due to a coversation I was having with my aunt recently after my mother's death. The estate where that big house sat was the Schaff (or maybe Shaff?) estate. My grandfather was the caretaker on the property back during the Depression era. My mother's family lived in one of the smaller houses that stood on the property at that time. Back in the late '60s or early '70s, my mother made friends with the caretaker of the property at that time. By then the mansion on the property (I remember it being referred to as the Milby Mansion, although my aunt says that it was just the Schaff Estate and the Milby Mansion was located elsewhere) was vacant. The current owners told my mother's friend to take anything they wanted out of the house, and they let my parents (who were in the antiques business) have some of the items. For many years, a mirror that was actually one of the doors from the mansion hung in my mom's den. Milk glass from the large walk-in refrigerator was savaged and used to make several tables by my father. I still have one of them. I couldn't have been more than 6 or 8 at the time, but I remember going into that house with them and thinking it was remarkable. It was torn down when I was a teenager. I used to drive by it every day on the way to Milby High School.