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Walter D. Cline House

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1929, Jesse F. Lauck and Voelcker and Dixon. 3100 Hamilton Blvd.

Wichita Falls’s most grandiose house pays architectural homage to the south portico of the White House in Washington, D.C. Occupying a four-acre site overlooking Hamilton and Martin Plaza parks in Country Club Estates, the two-story, limestone-faced house was built for Ella Pipes and Walter D. Cline. Cline was one of the original investors in the Burkburnett oil field and a mayor of Wichita Falls. The street front of the U-shaped house has a semicircular portico supported on six Corinthian columns. A reversal of fortune forced the Clines to sell the house in 1939 to oilman and rancher Joseph Birdwell and his wife, Thora.

Hamilton Boulevard registers its status as Wichita Falls’s grand residential avenue because its east side bounds Hamilton and Weeks parks along Holliday Creek, affording sweeping vistas that are mirrored in the expansive lawns on the west side of the street.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Walter D. Cline House", [Wichita Falls, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ25.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 324-324.

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