You are here

Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast » Gulf Coast » Wharton to Danevang » Wharton (Wharton County) » Brooks-Dennis House

Brooks-Dennis House

-A A +A
c. 1895. 409 W. Burleson Ave.

With the Croom House ( WD7), the Brooks-Dennis House is the outstanding surviving late-nineteenth-century house in Wharton. It is a spacious, two-story house with a polygonal bay on the northwest corner framed by the double-level veranda. The first floor of the veranda is wider than the second floor; a shed roof below the second-floor level works in concert with the porch railings and ornamental friezes to give the house its horizontal proportion. Early occupants were Mary Rugeley and Peter G. Brooks, who were succeeded by Erna Anderson and J. H. H. Dennis. Dennis, a lawyer, became Wharton's first mayor after the town was incorporated in 1902, fifty-five years after its founding.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Commercial Building
Commercial Building (W. A. Harrison Building)
Wharton County Courthouse
Commercial Building (B. Leder's Grocery Co.)
Texas and New Orleans Railway Passenger Station

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Brooks-Dennis House", [Wharton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-WD11.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 450-450.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,