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Early-Twentieth-Century Houses on West 3rd Street

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c. 1900–1910. W. 3rd St. from Jackson Ave. to Bennett Ave.

More exceptional than the train station and grain elevators or the Deaf Smith County Courthouse is a line of houses on W. 3rd Street, all constructed of wood and encrusted with stickwork detailing doubtless ordered from catalogs and shipped by rail. The street is anchored at 508 W. 3rd by the E. B. Black House (1909, Emmett Vanderburgh), vestigially Queen Anne in its asymmetrical, picturesque massing. It is joined by undocumented houses at numbers 340, 400, and 401, which collectively and surprisingly appear as a late-nineteenth-century neighborhood in a town founded in 1899, when picturesque conceptions of design in the United States were giving way to more formal models.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Deaf Smith County Courthouse
St. Anthony Catholic Church
Stanton Special Learning Center (Hereford High School)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Early-Twentieth-Century Houses on West 3rd Street", [Hereford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH20.

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, 369-370.

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