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VICTORIAN
SECRETS
Painted Ladies,
Gingerbread and "Carpenter Gothic" in Texas
One in a Series
of Photo Essays
Mike
Price and TE Photos |
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this dreary age of McMansions, condos and "metal buildings"
these dignified homes are still the best-looking in town even though
100 years have passed since fashion pasted them by. The era came to
an end with the passing of Queen Whats-her-name. With their filigreed
lightning rods, weathervanes, quoins, turrets, stained-glass windows
and fishscale shingles (to say nothing of the skeletons in the closets)
they remain the quintessential American "dream house" for
generations of Americans. |
Decatur:
The Former Waggoner Mansion
"This house is on the northeast corner of Decatur. While a little
run-down, I was impressed the first time I saw it about 15 years ago."
- Mike
Price, December 2007 |
A window on the
Waggoner Mansion
Photo courtesy Mike
Price, December 2007 |
Gingerbread Detail
in Brenham
TE photo, January 2005 |
More Brenham
Gingerbread
TE photo, January 2005 |
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A rare Victorian-era
Office Building in Houston:
The Sweeney, Coombs & Fredericks Building at 301 Main Street
c. 1889
(Spared the wrecking-ball in 1974)
TE photo, November 2007
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An entry from
Ardmore Oklahoma
TE Photo,
February 2005 |
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