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L. L. and Louise Abshire House

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1930, L. W. Lindsay. 2600 Las Palmas Dr.

This imposing house in the Mediterranean villa style is ponderous in scale. In contrast to its old-fashioned design, the house is built of cast-in-place concrete, as is its rear garage/apartment building. The Abshire House occupies the only estate lot in Griffing Residential Park, Port Arthur's first garden subdivision and, from 1929 until 1983, a separately incorporated suburban town. The community was developed by commercial nurseryman and horticulturist W. C. Griffing on what had been, from 1906 to 1913, the site of Griffing Nurseries. With its curvilinear, tree-canopied streets, Griffing Park is spatially distinct from the rest of Port Arthur.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "L. L. and Louise Abshire House", [Port Arthur, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-OP22.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 384-385.

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