Lewin Routt House - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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Raven
N 30° 08.429 W 096° 15.440
14R E 764200 N 3337528
Constructed in the 1920's, the Lewin Routt House in Chappell Hill, TX is one of the few remaining residential houses representing the 26 "Contributing" buildings within its NRHP-designated Main Street Historic District.
Waymark Code: WMN6MC
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2015
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Chappell Hill's NRHP Main Street Historic District is an area covering 36 buildings, most of them built between 1850 and 1915 and reflecting the many variations in architectural style within that period in history. For more information on this particular Historic District, please see the following waymark: (
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The founding of the town of Chappell Hill is contributed to Mary Hargrove Haller who purchased a 100-acre site in this part of Texas on February 2, 1847 and subsequently commissioned a survey and the plotting of town lots. Just three years later, Mary Haller and her husband Jacob began building a two-story frame house now known as the "Stagecoach Inn" at the northwest corner of the center of that new town.
At the most sourthern end of the NRHP District lies the so-called Lewin Routt House, a simple wooden frame house built in 1920's. The building is starting to show some signs of decay and doesn't seem to be occupied at this time.
Little documented info can be found about its original owner, but per the
Texas Historical Commission Atlas records the house includes the following features:
"Single-story Bungalow with hipped roof extending over porch and exposed rafter ends at eaves. Brick piers at outer corners of porch with wooden-slat balustrade. Graduated series of capped brick piers bordering staired entrance to porch. Clapboard siding and wide wooden border around openings on exterior. Paired aluminum windows on east (front) facade. Original site of early Presbyterian Church which was relocated in 1886."