Frank Vrazel (born July 30, 1868, Moravia, Austria) immigrated as a child, arrived locally in 1900, and in 1903 purchased the nearby D. S. H. Darst cotton gin on East Avenue, which he operated until his death. He married Emilie A. Templin on December 25, 1895. Emilie, born February 16, 1877, at High Hill in Fayette County to Otto and Freda Mahler Templin, kept milk cows in the backyard and sold milk and butter in the neighborhood. The site first held a circa 1906 cottage. The present residence was completed in 1925, reflecting both prosperity from the cotton economy and household dairying that defined the block. Frank died March 8, 1935. Emilie died December 14, 1950. Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Contemporary and retrospective sources connect the Darst gin to the site’s history and describe its later identification as the Vrazel or Vrasel gin.