Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches: I sort of gorged myself on Cuero...

intersection of north esplanade and east church streets, cuero

...and for that, I must apologize, because there's a whole lot of great stuff(!) I got for the hour and a half or so I was there. If you are one of those EBiN readers who thinks "meh" or "wtf?" whenever you see the latest post is one of those 100-year-old-houses-ghost-signs-and-vintage-neon-signs-kind-of-posts, you may want to move along. Sorry, there's nothing to see here this go around. The rest of you should prepare to receive a face full of Cuero.

Upon arriving, a pleasant surprise:

A former Sinclair station:

On the back of the J. Stratton Building, a Coca-Cola ghost sign:

coca-cola ghost on the back of the j. stratton bldg.

J. Stratton Building c. 1894, Victorian:

Another neon surprise, this one downtown:

A 7UP ghost, probably from the lithium days:

De Witt County Courthouse c. 1896, Richardsonian Romanesque:

former Purina Chows downtown:

Cuero had more old homes than I could photograph on a trip, but I made a dent.

T.O. Buchel House c. 1900, Victorian

305 East Prairie Street c. 1898

Bell-Long Residence c. 1890s, Victorian/Symmetrical

Wofford-Finney House c. 1891, Queen Anne (Victorian)

309 East Sarah Street c. 1885 (a mere 20 years after the Civil War)

Callaway-Gillette House c. 1895, Victorian

Elisha Stevens House c. 1896, Victorian (probably Queen Anne)

Gohmert-Summers House c. 1895, Victorian

Burns-Windel Residence (my fave on this trip) c. 1902, Queen Anne

next favorite, Proctor-Green House c. 1910, Victorian

carriage stone in front of proctor-green house

Those stone steps would have helped ladies in Late Victorian garb climb down from a horse-drawn buggy or Model T. This place would have been quite something in its prime. Description from the THC Atlas entry: "2 1/2 story; elaborate Victorian; stain glass in rounded stairway; shingling; projecting bay; palladian windows; Green was district judge."