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Woman’s Culture Club (Louisa McLean and George M. Watkins House)

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1916, Roy L. Thomas. 210 W. Sandstone St.

The two-story, stucco-faced house was designed for merchant and civic leader George M. Watkins and his wife, Louisa, by Austin-based Thomas. The broad overhangs of the low-sloped hipped roof, three-arched front porch, and plain stucco ornament give a subtle Craftsman character to the house. A side porte-cochere with a screened sun-room above indicates the early prominence of the automobile in shaping house planning. Louisa Watkins was the first president of the Llano’s Woman’s Culture Club, to whom the house was willed.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Woman’s Culture Club (Louisa McLean and George M. Watkins House)", [Llano, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LL6.

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, 271-271.

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