The Mrs. J. V. Murphy House at 204 E. Santa Rosa in Victoria, Texas was built in 1899–1900. It was designed by architect Jules Leffland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
Mrs. J. V. Murphy House | |
 Murphy House in 2015 | |
  Mrs. J. V. Murphy House  Mrs. J. V. Murphy House | |
| Location | 204 E. Santa Rosa, Victoria, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 28°47′52″N 97°0′54″W / 28.79778°N 97.01500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1900 |
| Architect | Jules Leffland |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| MPS | Victoria MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86002554[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 9, 1986 |
It is a large 2+1⁄2-story house with Queen Anne elements. It has a stair turret and a wrap-around porch. A tower top was never rebuilt after it was destroyed by a storm in the early 1900s.[2]
It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area, including other "complex and inventive Queen Anne dwellings" created by Leffland and other architects in the 1890s.[3]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Daniel Hardy (1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination / Historic Sites Inventory: Mrs. J. V. Murphy House". National Archives.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) (accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog Archived January 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine) - ^ Daniel Hardy, Marlene Heck, David Moore, Morgan Dunn O'Connor and John Ferguson (June 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Historic Resources of Victoria, Texas". Retrieved February 16, 2017.
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