Kennard House - Gonzales, TX - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

In early 1895, Kennard purchased the lots and employed architect, J. Riely Gordon, to design this imposing Queen Anne residence. The house was completed that same year. The structure is two stories with a large attic and is constructed of cypress fish-tail shingles, longleaf pine clapboard siding with a high-pitched hip roof, gabled ells and a corner tower with an open arcade at the third story level. The tower has a tall six-sided pyramidal roof, part of which is copper. The decorative bands around the cupola are embossed metal and the mosaics are of glass pieces and cement.

It has six fireplaces, three baths, twelve foot ceilings and ten foot doors. Two of the fireplaces came from the old Jones home near Dilworth. The entrance windows in the cupola and dining room are French beveled glass topped by Tiffany leaded glass. The light fixtures have been refinished and have original shades. The intricate parquet floors are hardwood and the bath fixtures have been retained and restored.