S. F. Thornhill Building - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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N 30° 08.524 W 096° 15.425
14R E 764220 N 3337705
Constructed in 1875, the S. F. Thornhill Building in Chappell Hill, TX is one of the town's oldest commercial establishments and one of the 26 "Contributing" buildings within its NRHP-designated Main Street Historic District.
Waymark Code: WMN5AF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/28/2014
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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.
The S. F. Thornhill Building, located at the southeast corner intersection of Main and Cedar streets and built around 1875, is one of the town's oldest commercial establishments and one of the 26 "Contributing" buildings within the Historic District. It still houses commercial establishments to this date, the latest being the
"291 Ice House" (at least as of this waymark's posting!).
Per the official NRHP records, the S. F. Thornhill Building includes the following features:
"Single-story, wood-frame, vernacular commercial building with simple false-front gable end, incorporating a stepped form with a rectangular panel and simple molding. Wood-frame clapboard siding. Four wood-paneled, double entry doors with moveable panels and lights appearing in two. Corrugated metal canopy over wooden deck in front of building. Board-and-batten siding of the north wall historically used as advertising billboard. Building restored in 1975 by present owner. Frame of building straightened, deteriorated boards and cornice molding on false-front gable end replaced."