West House
You are here
Smith M. Ellis House (West House)
1888. 422 King William St.
This eclectic three-story house features a Second Empire mansard roof above Italianate detailing on the three-story entrance bay tower and the flanking two-story polygonal bay. The double lot gives the house a parklike setting, permitting the dominance of the corner entrance emphasized by curved porches and crowned by an octagonal tower. In 1892 the house was sold to Sol West, a stockman, and later passed on to West's son Ike.
Writing Credits
×
Data
-
Location: San Antonio, TexasRegional Overviews:Materials:no metadata available
What's Nearby
Citation
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Smith M. Ellis House (West House)", [San Antonio, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-SA75.
Print Source
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 165-165.
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.