Refugio builder and lumber dealer George Strauch built his own house with a centered Colonial Revival portico within which two-story galleries were inserted. But he conservatively included a circular pavilion bay at the southwest corner of the gallery, in lieu of a turret.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "George Strauch House", [Refugio, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-RF13.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 491-491.
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