Our Home

Why a 120-year-old house

A place with character and soul.

The dentistry I love most is creative work. Designing a smile is part science and part art — it takes imagination, an eye for detail, and the right kind of place to do it.

So when the practice was ready to grow, I wasn’t looking for square footage in a shopping center. I was looking for somewhere that would inspire the work. I found it in a 1901 home in the heart of downtown Wylie.

Dr. Femi Fadahunsi outside our restored home at 307 N. Jackson.

A piece of Wylie's history

The Burns House

Our home is known as the Burns House. It was built in 1901 by John H. Burns — one of Wylie’s founding figures. When the town incorporated in 1887, Burns was elected one of its very first aldermen, and together with his business partner William Thomas Brown he laid out the Brown & Burns Addition, the downtown neighborhood our office still sits in today.

The house stayed in the Burns family for the better part of a century — right up until the early 1990s. It even gathered a little charm along the way: in the early 1940s, the family moved an entire second, saltbox-style house up against the back of the original and joined the two with a doorway off the living room. Decades later, those rooms were opened into the single, flowing floor plan you’ll walk through today.

The restored entry.

Original brick, preserved.

Craftsman character, start to finish

Built in 1901, honored in every detail.

Our building is a classic early-1900s Arts & Crafts home — Craftsman through and through, with shingled siding on the second story, a deep covered front porch, and exposed rafter tails and decorative knee braces tucked under the eaves. These are the details that give the house its warmth, and we protected every one of them.

Restored the way we restore smiles

Honor what's beautiful, and bring it back to life.

We left the exterior essentially as we found it, preserving the home’s original character, and did our new trim work to echo how it might have looked a century ago. Inside, we reimagined the living spaces for modern dentistry — the old kitchen and dining room became treatment operatories, former bedrooms are now treatment and lab rooms, and the sitting rooms are our reception area — while rebuilding the plumbing and systems from the ground up. All told, the restoration took about seven months.

The best surprise came mid-renovation. Hidden inside a wall — tucked behind a bathroom and a pantry — we uncovered the home’s original fireplace. It felt wrong to close it back up, so we framed it and left it on display. It’s a piece of the house’s original heart, right out in the open.

The moment we found it — the original fireplace, hidden inside a wall.

Framed and left on display, exactly where we found it.

Down to the studs

For about seven months, the house was a job site — floors opened, walls framed, every system replaced. We rebuilt it the way we approach a full-mouth case: protect what’s worth keeping, and rebuild the rest with intention.

Rebuilt from the studs out.

“Even on the hardest days, take a deep breath and remember; you are upheld by a power greater than yourself. Let faith guide your mind toward peace.” — a verse we wrote into the framing, Isaiah 41:10

The result today

Reception

Treatment room

3D imaging & technology

Come see it for yourself

307 N. Jackson Avenue, Downtown Wylie

You’ll find convenient street parking and a free public lot just around the corner. When you arrive, take a moment on the porch — it’s been welcoming people to this corner of Wylie for more than 120 years.

Wylie Dentistry Co.

A restored 1901 landmark in downtown Wylie.
307 N. Jackson Ave, Wylie, TX 75098

Contact

(972) 478-0540
frontdesk@wyliedentistry.com

Hours

Tue–Thu 8:00–5:00
Fri 8:00–1:00
Closed Mon