Martin-Lowe House - Clarendon, TX
N 34° 56.231 W 100° 53.670
14S E 326980 N 3867716
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, the Martin-Lowe House is a beautiful Queen Anne-style Victorian home at 507 W 5th St, Clarendon, TX.
Waymark Code: WMZ6PM
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2018
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The house is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, and a 1982 Texas Historical Marker in the front yard provides some background:
Local merchants J.G. and F.D. Martin built this house in 1904. Rancher James M. Calhoun owned the property from 1910 to 1914 and cattleman Robert H. Muir from 1914 to 1926. Muir sold the residence in 1926 to Sam W. Lowe, a college educator, merchant, stock farmer, and civic and church leader who served three terms as Donley County Judge. Lowe died in 1968, but his wife of 53 years, Lilac, continued to occupy the house until 1981.
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The National Register's Nomination Form provides a breakdown of the home's architectural details, inside and out, noting the lives and civic contributions of the families who have owned it. It describes the home thusly:
"The Martin-Lowe House is a two-and-a-half-story frame house built of cypress wood in 1904 in the Queen Anne style. It is prominently sided on an attractive city lot in an older residential area of Clarendon, Texas. Numbered among its distinguishing characteristics are the bay areas, the encircling veranda on the north and east sides, the conical roof which has a striking needle-like finial, the exterior cypress clapboard siding on the first story and an elaboration of patterned shingles on the entire upper portion, and the two pedimented dormers on the half story with a projecting overhang. The original lightning rods and weather vanes, as well as the imposing center chimney, make the house stand tall and majestic with a true awareness of its splendid legacy to the town of Clarendon and the Panhandle."
The home's own website (see Web Address) provides some more contemporary photos, along with some overlapping information taken from the National Register, and a bit of an update about the house's purchase in 1982 by Zell SoRelle, and its subsequent restoration. As of this posting, the Martin-Lowe House is ready for a new owner, and can be purchased for $449,000.
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