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F. L. Whaley House

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1871; 1979, 1996 restored. 101 E. Whaley St.

One of the earliest residences in Longview was built by Franklin L. Whaley, a hardware merchant who served as the city’s mayor in 1891. The house was a simple side-gabled structure raised above ground level with a full-width porch in the tradition of East Texas houses and plantations built after 1845. Single-room projecting wings were added soon after initial construction, maintaining the symmetry of the original. The front-gabled wings and dormers are treated as pediments over projecting cornices. The street front is wide, with a five-bay porch supported by columns in the form of paired posts with jigsaw-cut infill and jigsaw scroll brackets.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Gregg County Courthouse
Longview Fire Department (Longview Municipal Building and Central Fire Station)
First Baptist Church
Nugget Hill Residential Neighborhood
LeTourneau Company Domes

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "F. L. Whaley House", [Longview, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LT2.

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, 91-91.

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