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Pickering House (Victoria, Texas)

Coordinates: 28°48′10″N 97°0′24″W / 28.80278°N 97.00667°W / 28.80278; -97.00667
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Pickering House
Pickering House in 2014
Pickering House is located in Texas
Pickering House
Pickering House
Pickering House is located in the United States
Pickering House
Pickering House
Location403 N. Glass,
Victoria, Texas
Coordinates28°48′10″N 97°0′24″W / 28.80278°N 97.00667°W / 28.80278; -97.00667
Arealess than one acre
Built1855 (1855)
ArchitectJules Leffland
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSVictoria MRA
NRHP reference No.86002553[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 9, 1986

The Pickering House, at 403 N. Glass in Victoria, Texas, was built c.1850s. In about 1911 it was remodelled to a Classical Revival design by architect Jules Leffland.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The listing included four contributing buildings.[1]

The house has an asymmetrical plan and a two-story porch across its front. The original house was built for sea captain A. F. Higgs, entrepreneur of the Texas Continental Meat Co., possibly in the 1850s. Joe M. Pickering, a businessman and co-founder of the Anchor Lumber Co., bought the house in 1908.[2]

It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area.[3]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Daniel Hardy (1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination / Historic Sites Inventory: Pickering 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)
  3. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)