The Shoe House, 712 West 16th Street, Austin, Texas
Posted by admin on October 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Herblin – Shoe House, 712 West 16th Street, Austin, Texas
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Most Recent, Neoclassical (1880-1940ish), Queen Anne Revival, Texas, Urban Landscape, Vernacular · Tags Austin Architecture, Austin History, Austin Texas. Texas Architecture, Dunning Family History, Judge's Hill Austin, Lucy Shoe Meritt, Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, Philadelphia History
Colonial Revival Residences at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Galveston Texas
Posted by admin on June 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Colonial Revival Residences at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Galveston Texas
No doubt a product of the Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, the buildings shown in this photograph include two Colonial Revival officer and/or staff residences at front. On left the more formal house features an almost oriental porch at the facade and a more relaxed, [...]
Category Architectural History, Colonial Revival, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Medical Buildings, Most Recent, Texas · Tags Colonial Revival, Colonial Revival Architecture, Galveston Architecture, Galveston History, HIstoric Preservation Texas, US Marine Hospital, Veterans Hospital
The Last Wendish Wedding: John Schulze and Theresa Moerbe, Christ Lutheran Church, Loebau, Lee County, Texas
Posted by admin on February 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Folk House (Bumpkinastic Revival), Location Location Location, Most Recent, Texas · Tags Christ Lutheran Church, Curator of Shit, John Schulze, Lee County, Loebau, Loebau Church, Lutheran Church Architecture, Selma Beisert, Texas, Texas German Architecture, The Last Wendish Wedding: John Schulze and Thereasa Moerbe, Theresa Moerbe, Wendish Church, Wendish Museum, Wendish Wedding
Andreas Moerbe’s Old Wooden House at Loebau, Texas
Posted by admin on January 22, 2013 · 2 Comments
Probably taken between 1910 and 1915, this photograph reflects the Andreas Moerbe farm and its buildings as it stood after only 10 to 15 years of occupation by Moerbe and his large family. The Moerbes lived in Serbin, roughly 10 miles from Loebau until the first years of the 20th century, when he bought this [...]
Johann Leitko’s Wood-Frame, Victorian-Vernacular Center Gable Cottage, Lincoln, Texas
Posted by admin on January 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Located near the cross roads of Lincoln, Texas–in Lee County, Johann Leitko and his third wife, Mary Schneider Leitko, his two sons by Magdalena Fritsche Kasper Leitko, and Mary’s four children, the Schneiders, pose before the Leitko house at a time when people in Lee County, Texas were proud of their wood-frame dwellings. Wood-frame houses, [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Landscape Architecture, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Texas · Tags Center Gable Cottage, Curator of Shit, German Architecture, german architecture in texas, Germanic Houses, Johann Leitko, Lee County History, Leitko Family, Lincoln Texas, texas architecture, Texas Wood Frame Houses, Victorian Farm House, Victorian Vernacular, Wood Frame House
The Jersey Lilly of Judge Roy Bean, District of the Peace, The Law West of the Pecos, Val Verde County, Texas
Posted by admin on August 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Jersey Lilly of Judge Roy Bean, District of the Peace, The Law West of the Pecos, Val Verde County, Texas
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Category Built Environment, Location Location Location, Oldie But Goodie, Public Architecture, Texas · Tags Curator of Shit, Famous Texas Judge, HABS HAER, Judge Roy Bean, Judge Roy Bean Justice, Justice Texas, Law West of the Pecos, Lilly Langtry, Texas History, The Jersey Lilly, Val Verde County, Val Verde County History, Wood Frame Buildings
The Wondrous Court Yard of St. Martin’s Protestant Episcopal Church of a Largely Thrown-Away Houston, Texas
Posted by admin on April 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Wondrous Court Yard of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of a Largely Thrown-Away Houston, Texas
Trinity has not only chosen to preserve its church building and its fabulous interior, but also must be commended for saving a once typical, but now rare wood-frame house within its block for use by the church. The church could have [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Gothic Revival, Historic Preservation, Historical Humanity, History, Houston, Interior, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Texas, Tudor Revival (1880-1940ish) · Tags Churches of Texas, Courtyard Examples, Curator of Shit, Gothic Revival Architecture, Historic Buildings Houston Texas, Houston Churches, St Martins Houston, St. Martins Episcopal Church Houston, texas architecture, Tudor Revival Architecture
The Fantastical Garden Shed of Robert Gage, Austin, Texas
Posted by admin on April 24, 2012 · 1 Comment
The Fantastical Garden Shed of Robert Gage, Austin, Texas
Located at the rear of a fairly large lot on Rio Grande Street in the “Judge’s Hill” Section of Austin, Texas, a charming old wood-frame dwelling has an even more charming wood-frame shed. The shed was built by Robert Gage, a long time antique dealer and artist [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Architectural Salvage, Built Environment, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Green, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Reuse, Salvage, Salvage Materials, Style Section..., Texas, Urban Landscape · Tags Curator of Shit, Fantasy Architecture, Garden Buildings, Garden Shed Design, Garden Sheds, Historic Garden Sheds, Outbuildings, Robert Gage, Robert Gage Antiques, Robert Gage Artist, Robert Gage Austin Tx, Wood Frame Buildings, Wood-frame outbuildings, Wooden Architecture, Wooden Buildings
Susanna Dickinson and Her House Moved In Austin…
Posted by admin on April 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Susanna Dickinson and Her House Moved In Austin…
While the removal of the house is unfortunate to the precise historical accuracy of the site, it is probable that such development of the Hilton Hotel not only identified, but saved the modest dwelling of Greek Revival stylistic influence from further desecration and/or loss to a less magnified [...]
Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Greek Revival, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, Style Section..., Texas · Tags Austin Texas History, Curator of Shit, Greek Revival Architecture, Greek REvival Architecture in Texas, Restration, Susanna Dickinson at the Alamo, Susanna Dickinson Austin, Susanna Dickinson House, Susanna Dickinson quotes, Susanna Dickinson Texas History, Susanna Dickinson timeline, Texas Historic Architecture
Lee County Texas Germans Were Drawn To Trailer Houses Early On…Mobile Homes, Lee County, Texas
Posted by admin on April 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Lee County Texas Germans Were Drawn To Trailer Houses Early On…Mobile Homes, Lee County, Texas
The removal and reuse of buildings and/or building materials was popular long before the development of Green as a fashionable environmental religion in modern American society, this was especially true among common folk–as were the ”German” or Wendish settlers in Lee County, Texas. Most settlers in Lee [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, misery maven, Most Recent, Residential Architecture, Texas, Vernacular · Tags Curator of Shit, German architecture Texas, historic mobile homes, historic trailers, lee county texas, mobile homes, movable buildings, movable house, prefabricated house history, Texas History, trailer house, Vintage Trailers, Wendish houses
