We suspected all along that if the Bayless-Selby House and the Quakertown House were left to their own devices, some kind of hanky-panky would ensue. Sure enough, there has been a blessed event at the Historical Park of Denton County: A third house, this one a former servant’s quarters from the grounds of a stately old mansion in Lewisville has joined the two historic buildings at the park, and is in the process of being restored for use as a reception center. It will not be long before Mulberry Street and Carroll Boulevard will be the classiest intersection in town, if you ignore the coldly impersonal (and misaddressed) Carroll Courts Building just to the north.

Like the Bayless-Selby and Quakertown houses before it, the new arrival now sits a little forlornly on rails and cinder blocks, as restoration expert Bill Marquis lovingly works his magic on the tiny centenarian. We cannot wait to see the result, but we have learned to be patient; the Bayless-Selby project took years to complete, and Marquis’ work on the Quakertown House took almost as long. This newest addition comes from Lewisville, where it began its life in 1904 as a servant’s quarters behind the historic Spencer House, a three-story, 14-room mansion, which has itself been moved around considerably before landing most recently in the Austin Ranch community in North Dallas.

The little servant’s quarters didn’t fit into the plans of the Spencer House’s latest owners, but the sharp eye of Georgia Caraway, the executive director of Denton County Museums, spotted it right away as just the thing for the Historical Park.

When Marquis’ work is done, using the same type of materials there were used in the original construction, the little building will be transformed, like its parents in the park, from a diamond in the rough to a highly polished jewel, a reception center that will welcome park visitors and provide them with information about the history of Denton County and the park itself.

When we read Monday’s account by the Record-Chronicle’s Hillary Rasch, we were struck by the large and diverse crew of midwives who brought about the birth of this 104-year-old baby, and how many have contributed to the success of the park as a whole. Caraway was in charge, of course, but she had plenty of help.

The Bayless-Selby House was a gift to Denton County from the late Mildred Hawk, and it became the cornerstone of the park.

The Historical Park Foundation was the actual purchaser of the one-room house, but it got the money from a grant by the Denton Benefit League, an organization of residents whose only purpose is to find worthwhile projects and help get them done.

When the new reception center is completed, it will join the Bayless-Selby House and the Quakertown House on a beautiful garden plot that is lovingly tended by Master Gardeners of Denton.

Even the commercial outfit that moved the house to Denton had a benevolent hand in the project. Denton County House Movers acquired the building in the process of moving the Spencer House for its new owners, and it was willing to sell the tiny house to the foundation and move it to its new and permanent home.

How lucky we are to have such people and organizations among us — people and organizations that remind us to remember our past as we struggle with the exigencies of the present and gird ourselves for the challenges of the future.

We can only do our feeble best with the present, and there is no way we can predict the future, but with the arrival of the newest addition to the Historical Park of Denton County, it seems that the future of Denton County’s history — if we can be excused that curious phrase — is in good hands.