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Thomas and Kathryn O'Connor House

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1928, Page Brothers. 501 N. Vine St.

As was often the case in twentieth-century Victoria, as members of the local elite inter-married, ranching dynasties merged. Thomas O'Connor, a grandson of the first Thomas O'Connor of Refugio County, and a nephew of Thomas M. O'Connor, married Kathryn Stoner, whose father and grandfather were Victoria County ranchers. The O'Connors built this solidly proportioned Spanish Mediterranean house. With its curious entrance portal of graduated arch shapes and its studied planarity, the house looks more monumental than it is. Kathryn O'Connor's love of things Spanish matured as she became a serious historian and supporter of historical scholarship and preservation (see GB15).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Thomas and Kathryn O'Connor House", [Victoria, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-VI31.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 485-486.

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