Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

John J. Welder Home carriage stone and gate post

...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 yo...

From the Texas Historical Commission's Historic and Architectural Resources of Houston Heights (written in the early 1980s): One of t...

The 1897 Judge Stephen W. Blount House in Nacogdoches In her autobiography, A Kind of Magic (1963), Edna Ferber compared Galveston , Te...

There's a two-story Victorian there - can you see it ? Overwhelmed . That's the best word to describe how someone (such as myself) ...

I found all but a couple of sixteen structures I'd mapped, as well as several additional other things I had not planned on. In chronolog...

1020 Durst Street , c. 1890s, Victorian

Arranged chronologically, as I found each site in Tyler : Jenkins-Harvey Super Service Station and Garage , c. 1929, Art Deco; this place ...

Sealy, Texas J.W. Johnston House, c. 1900 (Queen Anne Victorian) The Haynes-Felcman House This Queen Anne house was built in 1901-1902 for H...

This is a classic example of design #4 from the pattern book Cottage Souvenir #2 - Revised and Enlarged , George F. Barber , architect. This...

I was just recently in Austin and did a post about several vintage neon signs I was able to locate. The focus this time will be on structu...