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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
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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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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 |
An
entry from Ardmore Oklahoma
TE Photo,
February 2005 | |
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