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YEAR BUILT: 1920
ARCHITECT/BUILDER: Unknown
ORIGINAL OWNER: C.D. Browne
ORIGINAL
DESCRIPTION:
Two story Spanish Mission. Smooth stucco. Gren tile roof. Parapet roof w/visor; brackets and rafters. Recessed entry portico w/heavy piers forming second floor porch w/parapet and visor roof; finials on piers; flat arches support roof and porte cochere; cut-out stonework in porch wall. Set back on second fllor is a continuation from recessed entry door. Geometric glazing. Full width veranda w/shed roof continuing as visor roof on first floor of a two story porte cochere on right.
OF INTEREST: The house was built as a speculative home by a builder who later became an active residential developer in Lakewood. The home stood empty for one year and was purchased in 1917 for $14,000 by the Browne family. It is known in the neighborhood as –the Alamo.” The house won the 1987 Restoration House of the Year Award. (Dallas/Fort Worth Home and Garden, July 1987, p8).