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Southwest Operating Inc. and Atlantis Oil Company Building (Horace and Mary Chilton House)

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c. 1888. 727 S. Chilton Ave.

This monumental classical house has a two-story wraparound portico of Ionic columns and a unique cantilevered second-floor balcony floating behind the colonnade. A central pediment breaks the horizontal roofline, and windows have Eastlake lintels. Attorney Horace Chilton was a state attorney general and a U.S. senator. The house was reportedly designed by an unknown architect to recall Mary Chilton’s Virginia childhood home, accounting for the early use of the classical style.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Southwest Operating Inc. and Atlantis Oil Company Building (Horace and Mary Chilton House)", [Tyler, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-TK16.

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, 65-65.

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