Two-story house with clapboard siding, exterior brick chimney, and front portico
Title:
Two-story house with clapboard siding, exterior brick chimney, and front portico
Description:
Unknown house, Austin, exterior | Two-story saltbox house with clapboard siding, exterior brick chimney, and front portico with side rails and decorative brackets. The edge of a single story, recessed structure connected on the right is visible, with a painted picket fence in front. There are louvered shutters on the windows, shrubs and a tree along the front of the house, a bench in the portico, and another chimney visible on the back of the house. | From a series of unique photographic images, which Williams took on his travels through central Texas in the 1920s, showing examples of vernacular architecture. Williams donated the negatives to the UT's School of Architecture in 1961 and they were subsequently transferred to the Alexander Architectural Archives. | Note: identified by John C. Garner Jr. as Austin
Creator/Contributor:
Williams, David R. (David Reichard), 1890-1962 (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1920s
Owning Repository:
Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
Photographs, black-and-white photographs, still image, and Architectural photographs
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Language:
not applicable
Topic:
Vernacular architecture, Two-story houses, Dwellings, and Architecture, Domestic--Texas
Time Period Covered:
1920 to 1930
Place Name:
Austin (Tex.)
Geographic Coverage:
Texas (state)
General Note:
Eugene George reviewed the images and attempted to identify the
projects' locations. Suggested locations offered as a note in the description are supplied by George.
Citation Note:
David Reichard Williams collection, Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin