Driving in old downtown Frisco, one can get a sense of what the city was like more than 100 years ago. While most of the older houses are gone, one house in particular has stayed intact: the T.J. Campbell house.

The house is now home to Randy’s Steakhouse on Main Street. Owner Randy Burks bought the house in 1995 from Frisco native Vivian McCallum, who owned the house with her family for 26 years.

Burks said he has always liked the house and envisioned it as a fine dining restaurant.

“I would drive by the house all the time, and it was the neatest building and the oldest building in Frisco,” Burks said. “And I get to share the history of this building with people almost every night.”

The house has not always been in downtown Frisco. In fact, the house had different uses in the past century.

Thomas Jefferson Campbell built the house in 1869 in the town of the Lebanon, on the east side of Preston Road. The house served as Campbell’s family home and as a general store.

In 1903, Campbell put the house on logs and pulled it by oxen to the Main Street location to be closer to the railroad, according to the Heritage Association of Frisco.

The house also served as a medical office and a boarding house.

In the early 1900s, Dr. Jefferson Davis Carpenter used the house for his medical practice.

According to Frisco lore, the doctor shot and killed a man inside the house, Burks said.

The house underwent two significant changes in its history; the addition of the west and east wings.

Given the rich history of the house, McCallum said she and her husband worked hard to secure a spot for the house on the state’s historical register. The house is now one of the few historical markers in the city.

“The house is so important to Frisco’s history, and it should stay here for a long time,” McCallum said.