This two-story I-house with its tall, narrow front portico was built for cattle rancher Robert Clark, a Pennsylvanian who came to Victoria in 1854 from Brownsville. Next door at 315 N. Main is a vernacular cottage with the distinctive double-pitched roof of Victoria.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Robert Clark House", [Victoria, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-VI24.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 484-484.
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