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The property on which the Pink House sits was sold by [[Thomas C. Watson]] to [[A. V. Clubbs]] on [[February 12]], [[1891]]. Clubbs lived in a [[Clubbs House|fine home]] across [[12th Avenue]] from the property, and reportedly built the second house for his daughter [[Lily Beggs|Lily]] as a wedding present when she married [[Elmore Dixie Beggs, Sr.|Elmore Dixie Beggs]]. (However, it may have been built as early as the 1870s.) It was sold to Dr. [[John A. Brosnaham]] on [[July 18]], [[1901]], and on a single day three years later — [[July 9]], [[1904]] — was deeded from the Brosnahams to Beggs (as a trustee) and back again to [[Sallie Moseley Brosnaham]] (with [[Walker Ingraham]] as a trustee). This was likely a legal maneuver related to the will of Dr. Brosnaham, who died six months later.
On [[September 21]], [[1923]], the house was awarded to [[John A. Brosnaham, Jr.]] in a lawsuit against the trustee, Ingraham. It was sold two months later ([[November 21]]) to electrical contractor [[Joseph Baroco]] and his wife Mattie. When Joseph was diagnosed with a heart condition in 1944, he was advised to move to a house without stairs, so they rented the home to the Hoffman family. Baroco died in [[1946]], and his widow sold the house to [[Art Mullen|Art]] and [[Nancy Mullen]] in [[1948]], conveying the deed on [[August 3]], [[1950]]. They lived in the house with four children, Christopher, Michaelanne, Kevin and Majerus.
Art Mullen was an interior designer, and he and his wife made extensive renovations to the home, including the distinctive pink color, several chandeliers and mirrored walls, a reconfigured foyer and upstairs bath, and a garage with loft for entertaining guests. They also added a fence after having trouble with vandals, though it proved an ineffectual deterrent; in the early 1980s two men accosted Mrs. Mullen at gunpoint and stole several items.
