Allen-Bell House - Bastrop, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 06.948 W 097° 19.287
14R E 661715 N 3332805
Greek Revival Style home on Church Street.
Waymark Code: WM16PN5
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2022
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NRHP Nomination Form"A one-story frame structure built between 1850 and 1859. The most unusual feature of this well-proportioned late Greek Revival house is its sheathing. The walls are sheathed with
vertical board and batten with the battens joined at both top
and bottom by arch-like cuts in the facia.
The Allen-Bell House was originally an L-shaped structure
with the principal facade facing east and the long portion of
the "L" facing north. The east or main facade is divided into
bays, with the central entrance covered by a portico. The east
portico is supported by four square columns with plinth-bases
and inset panels on the front repeating the design of the board
and batten sheathing. The juncture of the portico to the house
is supported by pilasters repeating the design of the columns.
The portico columns support a plain entablature and box cornice.
The bed mold of the cornice is a simple cove and the crown mold
is in the form of a cyma-reversa.
The structure was occupied by 1859, and remained occupied
until 1866, by Major R. D. Allen, commandant of the Bastrop
Military Academy, and son of Col. R.T.P. Allen. Col. Allen,
formerly the head of the Kentucky Military Academy, became
head of the Bastrop Military Academy when it was opened in
1857. The grounds of the former Academy adjoined the present
Allen-Bel l property."