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Architecture Topic
By Keith Peterson, August 18, 2007
Wahrenberger House
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | Charles Klein bought house from F. Huster, 1868. Leased it to German-American Ladies College (1873-90). Texas German and English Academy (1880-81) and deeded it, 1882, to daughter, Caroline (1834-19), widow of John Wahrenberger (1812-64). Early . . . — — Map (db m25698) HM |
| | Gottlieb William Bohls (1878-1961), the oldest of Heinrich and Julie Schroeder Bohls’ ten children, was born on his family’s farm near this site. In 1906, G.W. married Bertha Timmerman (1883-1967), and five years later they purchased a 95-acre . . . — — Map (db m25629) HM |
| On Simpson Street at East Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north on Simpson Street. |
| | Designed by architect James A. Wetmore, this building was constructed by A. C. Stamford of Alabama, who employed workers from Alabama and from Upshur County. Construction began in June 1925 and was completed early the following year. This structure . . . — — Map (db m139418) HM |
| On Warren Street at South Trinity Street, on the right when traveling east on Warren Street. |
| | Inspired by the Prairie School of architecture and the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th century, this house was constructed in 1912 for Gilmer civic leaders Daisie Lee (Boren) and James R. Warren. In 1921, the Warrens sold the house to T. . . . — — Map (db m139420) HM |
| On Mill Street at East Greenwood Street, on the right when traveling north on Mill Street. |
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Mass was celebrated in private homes and in a wooden house at this site before construction of this native Limestone church in 1891-92. Under the direction of the oblate fathers, the mission of Del Rio became Sacred Heart parish in 1895. This . . . — — Map (db m111432) HM |
| On East Dallas Street (State Highway 64) east of South Buffalo Street (State Highway 198), on the right when traveling east. |
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Built in 1937 with Public Works Administration funds, this is the sixth building to serve as the Van Zandt County Courthouse. According to local lore, the Commissioners Court decreed that a modern courthouse should be erected in order to provide . . . — — Map (db m54055) HM |
| On North Bridge Street at West Constitution Street, on the left when traveling north on North Bridge Street. |
| | When Don Martín de Leon platted the original townsite of Guadalupe Victoria in 1824, he designated public squares, including one that would later be shared by city and county governments for many years. Victoria County built its first courthouse, a . . . — — Map (db m95356) HM |
| On West North Street west of North Victoria Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | J. Meredith Tatton (1901-1970), conservationist, composer, cattleman, and writer, was born in Leek, Staffordshire, England. In 1930, Tatton came to Texas and married Victoria native Virginia Drake Hallinan (1901-1993), a great-granddaughter of . . . — — Map (db m141760) HM |
| On North Craig Street north of West North Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | New York native Alexander Hamilton Phillips (1804-1880) moved to Texas in 1837. He served in both the Congress of the Republic of Texas and the Legislature of the State of Texas. He moved his law practice to Victoria in the 1840s, and in 1851 . . . — — Map (db m142308) HM |
| On North Craig Street at West Stayton Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Craig Street. |
| | \Landmark of famous 1840 Indian raid, when Hamilton Ledbetter, builder of the first part of the house, fought Comanches, and is family escaped death by flight. Size and style of the house have been greatly enhanced by later owners: Judge A. H. . . . — — Map (db m141836) HM |
| On Avenue F/ Martin Luther King Drive near 9th Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Dr. Rufus W. Bailey, a teacher, minister and attorney educated in New England, came to Huntsville as a language professor at Austin College in 1855. He acquired an eight-acre tract on this site and erected a house which he named "Buena Vista," but . . . — — Map (db m66314) HM |
| On 11th Street (U.S. 190) east of Sam Houston Avenue (State Highway 75), on the left when traveling east. |
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Forrest Lodge No. 19, A.F & A.M., erected its first lodge building at this site early in 1850 on a lot measuring 50 by 75 feet purchased in 1849. The two-story white frame building was 50 feet square with five plastered brick columns in front. . . . — — Map (db m111849) HM |
| Near 19th Street near Avenue M. |
| | General of the army which won the war for Texas Independence, 1836, and first President of the Republic, 1836-1838, Sam Houston was one of the most controversial and colorful figures in Texas history.
In his eventful career, Houston had resided . . . — — Map (db m8040) HM |
| On 13th Street (State Highway 159) at Lafayette Street, on the right when traveling south on 13th Street. |
| | This two-story galleried Greek Revival residence was built about 1872 by German native William Ahrenbeck (1828-1888). A prominent area civic leader and builder, he also served as postmaster and mayor of Hempstead. His daughter Ella Justine Ahrenbeck . . . — — Map (db m117605) HM |
| On Blinka Road 0.7 miles south of Rochen Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Swiss immigrant John Frey (1857-1925) and his German-born wife Mary (1862-1933) moved to Waller County in late 1889. They built a small two-room house, a barn, and smokehouse, and began a family farm. The couple eventually had fifteen . . . — — Map (db m157645) HM |
| On Main Street (Farm to Market Road 1155) north of Cedar Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Chappell Hill began as an agricultural community in 1847 but had no bank until a population boom in the early 1900s brought wealth and economic prosperity.
Farmers State Bank organized in March 1907 and opened in September of that year with J. . . . — — Map (db m111933) HM |
| On Main Street (Farm to Market Road 1155) south of Cedar Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Town's early masonry store, built 1869 by merchant John E. Glass.
Has thick sandstone walls, massive hand-hewn and pegged pine timbers, doors and window shutters made with square nails.
Tenants have been grocers and the Chappell Hill Post . . . — — Map (db m111934) HM |
| On West Monseratte Street at Alamo Street, on the right when traveling east on West Monseratte Street. |
| | The El Campo Library Association began the city's first library in 1902. A public library opened at the downtown fire station in 1927. After a branch of the Wharton County Library was established in El Campo in 1939, this facility was completed in . . . — — Map (db m96318) HM |
| Near unamed road 1 mile south of County Road 6. |
| | First substantial home in Wheeler County, built across creek from Hidetown, buffalo hunter's post, about 1875 for first sheriff Henry Fleming. Rock quarried nearby. Ell of four 14 foot square rooms. Was considered a mansion. Served the county . . . — — Map (db m153876) HM |
| On East 12th Street (Interstate 40) east of North Main Street (Texas Highway 83), on the right when traveling west. |
| | The distinctive Tower Building was one of many commercial structures erected in the early 1930s along new U.S. Route 66. Designed by Pampa Architect J.C. Berry, the structure was built by local entrepreneur J.M. Tindall in 1936. The Tower Building . . . — — Map (db m52016) HM |
| | Built 1891 by F. M. Patton, a rancher; native stone with cottonwood framing. Part of lumber came from abandoned Fort Elliott. Barn was one of first in county; used to store prairie hay, alfalfa. W. G. Stiles family, owners, purchased ranch in . . . — — Map (db m153562) HM |
| On Main Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Named for Royal T. Wheeler, an early Texas jurist, Wheeler County was created by the Texas State Legislature in 1876. In 1879 the county was organized and Mobeetie (then known as Sweetwater), the only town in the county, became the county seat. A . . . — — Map (db m93682) HM |
| On West Cleveland Avenue at North Main Street, on the left when traveling east on West Cleveland Avenue. |
| | Building erected 1908, the first brick structure in Electra. Occupied 1908-1911 by Waggoner Bank; 1911-1931 by First State Bank; since 1931 by Electra State Bank.
Remodeled in 1952, using original foundations and walls. Recorded Texas . . . — — Map (db m128763) HM |
| On North Waggoner Street north of West Cleveland Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Electra’s population surge in the 1910s led local business leaders to hire Meador & Wolfe of Ft. Worth to design a theatre to accommodate the town’s growing entertainment needs. It opened here in 1920 and featured vaudeville, operas, boxing and . . . — — Map (db m128764) HM |
| On Texas Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Completed in 1906, this colonial revival residence was constructed for Sterling P. Huff. An attorney, Huff became Justice of the 46th District Court and was later elected to the 7th Court of Civil Appeals. In 1914 local attorney William David Berry . . . — — Map (db m104940) HM |
| On Paradise Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Spottswood Lomax, a founder of the noted Matador and Espuela (Spur) ranches of Texas, built a Queen Anne house here in 1890. It was remodeled in the colonial revival style around the turn of the century by the prominent cattleman W. T. "Tom" . . . — — Map (db m104939) HM |
| | The Merchants and Farmers Bank began in 1898 and incorporated as Farmers State Bank in 1905. In 1910, bank officers contracted for the building of a new bank onto existing commercial property at this site. Construction was finished in 1912. In the . . . — — Map (db m3265) HM |
| On East University Avenue. |
| | Scottish native George Irvine (1841-1936) built this two-story frame home for his family in 1886. The founder of the Irvine Brothers Lumber Co. (later the Belford Lumber Co.), Irvine was a civic leader who served on the school board, the city . . . — — Map (db m4004) HM |
| On Main Street at E. 9th Street on Main Street. |
| | Designed by C.I. Belford and constructed in 1892 by C.W. Schell, this building originally housed the mayor's office, city council chambers, city jail, fire department, and the Georgetown Water Co. Over the years, it also has served as a meeting . . . — — Map (db m4035) HM |
| On E. University Ave. (State Highway 29) near S. Ash Street. |
| | Built in 1923-24 on the original site of Southwestern University, this structure served as Georgetown High School for over fifty years. Designed by Austin architect Charles H. Page and exhibiting influences of the Spanish Colonial Revival style of . . . — — Map (db m4059) HM |
| | Built in 1903, this ornate Victorian structure originally housed the furniture store of Hugh Clifford Craig (1850-1938). Craig sold his business to local competitor W.H. Davis in 1906, but retained ownership of the building. In 1936, after the Davis . . . — — Map (db m25036) HM |
| | Established in 1887, the Granger Common School District built three earlier school buildings (1887, 1906 and 1914) on this site before this structure was erected in 1924-25. A good example of institutional design of the period, the building features . . . — — Map (db m4172) HM |
| On E Main Ave near Burnet Street S.. |
| | In 1854, Andrew J. and Hedwig Nelson of Sweden settled here. Hard-working in many businesses, Nelson (d. 1895) prospered. His widow and heirs had this house built by Page Brothers, Austin architects, 1895-1900. A son, Thomas Edward, . . . — — Map (db m4778) HM |
| | Built in 1860s. Ranch style forerunner. Since 1878 in the family of A. V. Doak, Taylor’s first doctor, organizer of mule-drawn streetcar line, civic leader. Son, Dr. Edmond Doak, b. 1878, has spent lifetime in this house. Grandson is Dr. E. K. Doak . . . — — Map (db m2948) HM |
| | Albert Eikel (b. 1852) had this building constructed in 1893 to house the Eikel Hardware Company. The three-story, brick commercial structure was designed by prominent Williamson County architect Henry Struve. The building was purchased in 1923 by . . . — — Map (db m3197) HM |
| On Mounts Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | The Mounts family first arrived in Denton County in the 1850s from Virginia. W.H. Mounts (1833-1889) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth (Mattie) Mounts (1838-1914), were early residents of the new county seat of Denton, which had been moved from New . . . — — Map (db m154096) HM |
| On North Sycamore Street at West Buchanan Street, on the right when traveling north on North Sycamore Street. |
| | Wood County natives Lorenzo Dow Callaway (1869-1918) and Elizabeth Williams (1874-1949) married in 1892 and had five children. Lorenzo joined his father, James Anderson Callaway, in his mercantile business, and had other varied interests including . . . — — Map (db m139051) HM |
| On East Broad Street (U.S. 80) at North Johnson Street, on the left when traveling east on East Broad Street. |
| | Chartered in 1898, the First National Bank of Mineola was housed in several downtown locations before this building was constructed in 1912. Built on the site of the former Mineola Mercantile, which burned in 1903, the bank building exhibits a blend . . . — — Map (db m139011) HM |
| On East Kilpatrick Street at Wigley Street, on the left when traveling east on East Kilpatrick Street. |
| | Angus and Lena Beaird began construction of this house in 1918; it was completed in the early 1920s. The Beairds sold the house in 1928 to Howard and Vivian Lott, who were leaders in the development of Mineola and Wood County. The house exhibits . . . — — Map (db m139049) HM |
| On North Line Street at West Kilpatrick Street, on the left when traveling north on North Line Street. |
| | An early leader of the Texas progressive era and a national spokesman for the concerns of farmers, O. P. Pyle had this home constructed in 1903-04, when he was editor and publisher of the Mineola "Courier." Built by local craftsmen, including "Zonn" . . . — — Map (db m139021) HM |
| On North Johnson Street north of West Kilpatrick Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | A 1906 two-story home was constructed by J.J. McLeod for attorney Barney B. Hart (1845-1925), and the home remained virtually unchanged since a breakfast room was added to the original structure in 1916. Hart family members lived in the home until . . . — — Map (db m139034) HM |
| On North Main Street (Texas Route 37) at East Goode Street (Texas Route 154), on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | The Texas legislature created Wood County in 1850 with Quitman as the county seat. The county first used a log courthouse on the south side of the square before building a two-story frame structure, which burned in 1878. The county’s third . . . — — Map (db m139235) HM |
| On South Main Street (Texas Route 37) at East Cedar Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street. |
| | Colonial mansion built by Marcus DeWitt Carlock, Sr., prominent early-day attorney, Confederate courier, political leader, friend of Governor Jim Hogg, member Electoral College that named Woodrow Wilson president. Entertained many high officials in . . . — — Map (db m139269) HM |
| On Sage Street at North Mill Street, on the right when traveling east on Sage Street. |
| | The Rev. Kimberly served as the first pastor of the Central Christian Church of Winnsboro, organized in 1893 with twenty charter members. The following year the congregation had this sanctuary constructed. The original steeples were destroyed by a . . . — — Map (db m139305) HM |
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