Pickering House (Victoria, Texas)

Pickering House
Pickering House in 2014
Pickering House
Pickering House
Location 403 N. Glass,
Victoria, Texas
Coordinates 28°48′10″N 97°0′24″W / 28.80278°N 97.00667°W / 28.80278; -97.00667Coordinates: 28°48′10″N 97°0′24″W / 28.80278°N 97.00667°W / 28.80278; -97.00667
Area less than one acre
Built 1855 (1855)
Architect Jules Leffland
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS Victoria MRA
NRHP reference # 86002553[1]
Added to NRHP December 9, 1986

The Pickering House, at 403 N. Glass in Victoria, Texas, was built c.1850s. In about 1911 it was remodelled to a Classical Revival design by architect Jules Leffland.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The listing included four contributing buildings.[1]

The house has an asymmetrical plan and a two-story porch across its front. The original house was built for sea captain A. F. Higgs, entrepreneur of the Texas Continental Meat Co., possibly in the 1850s. Joe M. Pickering, a businessman and co-founder of the Anchor Lumber Co., bought the house in 1908.[2]

It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Daniel Hardy (1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination / Historic Sites Inventory: Pickering House". National Archives. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help) (accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog)
  3. ↑ Daniel Hardy, Marlene Heck, David Moore, Morgan Dunn O'Connor and John Ferguson (June 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Historic Resources of Victoria, Texas". Retrieved February 16, 2017.


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