One of the most prominent houses in the Virginia Avenue Historic District, this 2.5 story, 5, 086-square-foot home includes 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, and sits on a beautiful 1.73 acre lot landscaped with pine, crape myrtle and ash trees. Designed by: Diedrich Rulfs, and built in 1898. The wood frame home is built on a brick pier foundation and skirted with wood lattice. Cast concrete steps with urns greet visitors at the street entry, the gable front porch is decorated by slender Doric columns, and the entry door has leaded glass side lights. The home features bull-nosed siding and a hip-and-gable roof with fish scale shingles. There is an octagonal turret on the northeast corner, and the home features a corbelled interior chimney. This superb time-capsule of Texas history is move-in ready and fully furnished for devotees of fine craftsmanship ready to add their pages to the well-read history of Texas' first city.
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