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J. P. Astin House

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1908–1913. 111 E. Campbell St.

Sited on a quarter city block, the Astin House is a fine Colonial Revival two-story, center-hall, wooden house. The front porch is carried on two pairs of monumental Ionic columns, and the corners of the house are marked with Ionic pilasters. Large flat-roofed dormers are centered on each side of the pyramidal roof. A single-story porch on small Ionic columns stands behind the monumental columns and continues on the east side as a porch and the west side as a porte-cochere. The site retains its original iron fence with brick piers. A stable and servants quarters stand at the rear of the property, making this an unusually complete ensemble of period structures. Astin was a real estate speculator and developer, obviously a lucrative business in early-twentieth-century Stamford.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Stamford City Hall
Swenson Land and Cattle Company Building
U.S. Post Office
Stamford Insurance Agency (Bryant-Link Building)
St. John’s Methodist Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "J. P. Astin House", [Stamford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SB7.

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, 300-300.

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