Historic Homes of Georgetown Texas of Olive Street

Historic Homes of Georgetown Texas on Olive Street

circa 1905

Wilcox Graves House - 1905
1403 Olive Street
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Wilcox-Graves House. 1403 Olive. One and-a-half-story wood-frame dwelling; exterior walls with 117/121 siding; hip roof with composition shingles; hip dormers; front elevation faces west; interior brick chimney; wood-sash double-hung and fixed windows with 1/1 lights; single-door entrance; three-bay porch within front projecting ell; Doric columns, slat-wood balustrade. Other noteworthy features include single, large oval lights in entrance door; narrow oval lights in sidelights; Doric pilasters on front dormer; shingle siding on bases of Doric pilasters; molding over windows; bay window on north elevation with angled corners and stained glass in center window. Outbuildings include double garage and storage building.

Primary area of significance: architecture. A good example of an early twentieth century vernacular dwelling. D. P. Wilcox was part owner of Wilcox Bros. Book and Jewelry Store. Former home of Judge H. N. Graves.

circa 1909

1408 Olive Street
M.C. Amos House
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Martin C. Amos House. 1408 Olive. Two story wood-frame dwelling with Georgian plan; exterior walls with weatherboard siding; gambrel roof with composition shingles with extended eaves; front elevation faces east; two exterior stone chimneys with corbeled cap; wood-sash double-hung windows with 12/1 lights; single-door entrance with transom and sidelights; three-bay porch inset within east elevation; porch is supported by inverted-taper box columns that rest on stone pedestals; bay openings of porch spanned with triangular arches; long, shed-roof dormer with exposed rafter ends on east and west elevations; second floor of north and south elevations with wood-shingle siding; house rests on stone foundations; carport extends from south elevation. Outbuildings include a small frame garage with board-and-batten construction.

Primary area of significance: architecture. One of Belford's more unusual residences-one of three houses in Georgetown with gambrel roof. Martin Amos was a professor at Southwestern University.

Texas Historical Marker
Inscription. Built in 1909 by the C.S. Belford Lumber company, this was originally the home of Southwestern University German professor Martin C. Amos (d. 1911) and his family. It was later purchased by another member of the university faculty, chemistry professor John Campbell Godbey, who lived here until 1965. Features of the home include a gambrel roof and three-bay inset front porch with stone piers.

circa 1885

1409 Olive Street - 1885
Home of Judge Harry graves
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This home was common in Georgetown during the 1880 and 1900s. The Irvine Lumber Company incorporated Victorian ornamentation using spindle frieze and turned post balustrade. This home is only one of two known to built by the lumber company

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Texas Historical Marker Text
JUDGE HARRY N. GRAVES

BORN APRIL 4, 1877 IN LA VERNIA (WILSON COUNTY), HARRY GRAVES ATTENDED SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN GEORGETOWN AND LATER SERVED THREE TERMS AS CITY ATTORNEY. AS WILLIAMSON COUNTY ATTORNEY, HE AIDED THE PROSECUTION IN A LANDMARK TRIAL AGAINST THE KU KLUX KLAN, 1923-24 (HE LIVED AT THIS SITE AT THE TIME). DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND FUTURE GOVERNOR DAN MOODY LED THE TEAM. IN 1929, VOTERS ELECTED GRAVES TO THE TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WHERE IN 1930 HE WROTE THE BILL ESTABLISHING THE TEXAS HIGHWAY PATROL. IN 1937, HE BECAME A JUDGE ON THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS. GRAVES DIED IN 1957 AND WAS BURIED IN THE STATE CEMETERY IN AUSTIN, LEAVING A LEGACY OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC SAFETY FOR TEXAS.

(2006)

circa 1913

1307 Olive Street
DK Wilcox House
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D. K. & Inez Wilcox House. 1307 Olive. Two-story wood-frame dwelling; exterior walls with weatherboard siding; hip roof with composition shingles; front elevation faces west; two interior brick chimneys; wood-sash double-hung windows with 1/1 lights; single-door entrance with transom and sidelights; one-story three-bay porch with hip roof L-shape in south and west elevations; Doric columns on brick piers, slat-wood balustrade. Other noteworthy features include transom, sidelights and entry door lights divided into small squares and rectangles of beveled glass; crown molding on window facings of first floor; louvered shutters on western and some southern windows. Outbuildings include wood-frame double garage.

Primary area of significance: architecture. A good example of an early twentieth century Belford-built dwelling. D. K. Wilcox was part owner of Wilcox Bros. Book & Jewelry Store.