The Nolte-Rooney House is a U-shaped one-story building of twenty-inch-thick adobe blocks, made on site, on a rubble stone foundation. A red-painted metal skin, stamped to resemble brick, hides the adobe. The house was originally L-shaped. Alterations in 1900 and 1920 brought the house to its present shape.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Nolte-Rooney House", [Alpine, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV11.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 439-439.
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