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Mary E. Hudspeth House

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1909. 1905 4th Ave.

Local merchant Thomas P. Turk may have used a Sears catalog design as the basis for this house, originally built on the east edge of the town. After a bad drought, Turk lost his business and sold the house in 1913 to Mary Elizabeth Hudspeth, a faculty member at the college who had been Turk’s boarder. She moved the house closer to the campus (PH17) and operated it as a boarding house for students and faculty. Although she roomed nearby, faculty member Georgia O’Keeffe took meals here. In 1987 the house was converted to a bed-and-breakfast.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Randall County Courthouse
Buildings on Fifth Avenue
West Texas A&M University (West Texas State Normal College, West Texas State Teachers College)
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Mary E. Hudspeth House", [Canyon, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH15.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 367-367.

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