Randolph P. Goodman Jr. House

Randolph P. Goodman Jr. House. . Randolph Peyton Goodman Jr. (1884-1951) was born in Corsicana. In 1904, he married Alamo Roberta Patton (1886-1951), a native of San Antonio. They moved to Houston by 1907, where Randolph first worked for C.L. and Theo Bering Jr. selling hardware and sporting goods. By 1910, he had joined the F.W. Heitmann Co., where he moved up from clerk to sales manager by 1917. The young couple had three children: Virginia (1907-1993), Hazel (1911-2002) and Randolph III (1913-1979)., Needing a larger home in which to raise their young family, in November 1916, the Goodmans purchased the lot at 426 Westmoreland Avenue and contracted with John Wrench to build this house. They paid 6% down, and the rest was financed for six years by Theresa Heitmann Lorenzen, Vice President of the F.W. Heitmann Co. Within months, Wrench constructed a single-family pier-and-beam Colonial Revival house with craftsman elements applied in an American foursquare form. The two-and-a-half-story house features shed-roof dormers, wide overhanging eaves, clapboard siding and five-over-one wood-sash double-hung windows on the main façade. The L-shaped covered front porch is supported by five box columns on brick piers., Goodman was elected as a director of the F.W. Heitmann Company in January 1919 and paid off his loan that July. After 1923, he worked for the E.L. Wilson Hardware Company, followed by many years with the Rose-Hoskins Supply Co., where he held the offices of vice president, secretary-treasurer and part owner. Twelve years after the Goodmans died, the house was sold out of the family, and the dormers were added in 1965. The Goodman House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing structure in the Westmoreland Historic District. , Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2023.