Desk & Easel Lists Remodeled Woodard Street Home as Its Downtown Denison Location

Desk & Easel, a co-working business in downtown Denison, identifies a remodeled three-story house at 500 W. Woodard as its location, according to the company's website and Denison's downtown business directory. The website credits owner Wendy Acosta with remodeling the home, which it describes as dating to around 1900, and the business markets the space to people who work remotely or from home and want a professional place to meet clients.

On its first-party site, Desk & Easel calls itself a co-working space in the city's downtown and says Acosta converted the home into the location the business now lists. The site describes the building as a three-story house from around the turn of the 20th century. It presents the property as a downtown work setting for people who do not report to a fixed office.

The company website and Denison's downtown directory both put the business at 500 W. Woodard, inside the downtown district. Desk & Easel's online booking portal, by contrast, still lists the business at 319 West Chestnut. Both platforms are run by the company itself. No public statement reviewed for this report explains the difference between the two addresses or says which one customers should use.

The business's office-space page is aimed at people whose work can be done from anywhere. It points to home-based workers who, at least part of the time, want a more professional or more social environment than they find at home, and it presents the downtown location as an option for that group.

The same page lists meeting and conference-room space. Desk & Easel says people who need a professional setting to meet clients or members of their own team can book those rooms.

The location sits in a downtown area that the city characterizes as a Texas Main Street district. According to Denison's downtown website, the district holds more than 200 independently owned businesses, and the city reached semifinalist standing for the Great American Main Street Award in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

No public source reviewed for this report gave an opening date for the Woodard Street location, and the records reviewed did not compare the size of that site with any earlier address the business has used.