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Admission is free to tour the Schulze family home at 303 South O’Connor as well as Mary’s Playhouse in the back garden area.

Mary’s Playhouse was originally built as a chicken coop. In the 1920s it was converted as a playhouse for young Mary Schulze, the daughter of C.P. and Virginia Schulze.  As part of the Irving Heritage House First Sunday Tours, Mary’s Playhouse, located in the back garden area of the Heritage House.

Mary used the playhouse for her creative interests of painting and writing, as well as meditation. A number of the toys on display in the playhouse belonged to Mary and her brother Charles.

Built in 1912, the Heritage House is a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark. It was the home of C.P. Schulze, brother of Irving’s co-founder J.O. Schulze. Only one family has ever lived in this prairie-style bungalow.