The Park Heights subdivision between downtown San Angelo and the North Concho River was the elite residential neighborhood in the early twentieth century. After Abe Street became a major north–south connector road, many of its houses were replaced by offices, motels, and fast-food restaurants. The nearby W. Twohig Avenue, however, retains many of its early-twentieth-century houses. The two-story frame Murrah House (1908, J. R. Bryant and R. A. Hughes) at 212 Twohig has a foursquare plan and a monumental Classical Revival portico of four Tuscan columns that seems scaled for a much larger house. The hipped roof has a large jerkinhead front dormer with a Palladian window in place of a pediment.
The R. A. Hall House (1916; 215 W. Twohig) is a substantial two-story Craftsman house in dark red brick with bracketed eaves, sweeping green tile roofs, and a wraparound gallery. The house of physician Herbert A. Wardlaw (now the Mohair Council of America), designed in 1925 by David R. Williams at 233 W. Twohig, is a Pueblo Revival design composed of four rectangular blocks linked to form an enclosed interior patio. Small Alamo-scroll parapets mark the entrances at each street side of the building’s corner site. Dallas architect Williams developed the concept of a Texas regional architecture in the late 1920s, and the Wardlaw House represents one of his earliest efforts, stylistically and materially: the house is constructed of adobe faced with stucco.
The Prairie Style house at 421 W. Twohig was built in 1908 with unusual flared eaves. Next door at number 427, the c. 1927 house is a subtle blend of Mediterranean and Colonial features. Also Mediterranean is the red tile-roofed Joe B. Blakeney House (1929, Korn and Morgan) at number 438.