OLDEST - House in Panhandle, Texas
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YoSam.
N 35° 20.748 W 101° 22.795
14S E 283725 N 3913991
Lumber hauled by ox from Dodge City, by a St. Louis resident, to build a home in the Panhandle.
Waymark Code: WMTVYQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2017
Views: 2
County of House: Carson County
Location of House: 5th St. & Elsie St., Square House Museum Complex, Panhandle
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee
Date marker Erected: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966
Marker Text:
THE SQUARE HOUSE
The Niedringhaus brothers of St. Louis sent lumber by ox-cart from Dodge City and built this square house on their "N Bar N" Ranch here in Carson County in the mid-1880s. In 1887 a railroad official occupied the pioneer cottage while the Southern Kansas Railway was being extended from Kiowa, Kansas, to Panhandle City. This was later the home of some distinguished settlers: pioneer banker and treasurer of Southern Kansas Railway Company, James Christopher Paul; rancher-Judge J.L. Harrison; innkeeper James B. Wilks; and Sheriff Oscar L. Thorp. The oldest house in town, it was purchased in 1965 and restored as the Carson County Museum.