Roberts House - Cedar Hill, TX - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

"Architectural Style: Victorian-era Stick Style / Date of Construction: ca. 1884

This house is the most architecturally ornate house in Cedar Hill, and is the oldest in the city. A charming example of a Stick Style house, this structure belonged to Dr. Rufus A. Roberts, one of the town's leading early citizens. Dr. Roberts came to Cedar Hill in 1859; he served in the Civil War and then returned to Cedar Hill, where he practiced medicine and opened a drug store. He was instrumental in bringing the railroad to Cedar Hill. Dr. Roberts continued his practice until around 1900, when he passed it on to his son.

The Roberts House is a two-story, wood-framed structure in cypress lap siding, with a one-story wing centered in the rear. The main unit of the house features wooden corner boards, topped with pilasters and returns on the rear wing gable. Windows are two-over-two double-hung sash with simple drip molds. The main unit of the house has a mansard roof originally topped with a widow's walk. The rear wing is gable-roofed. The front two-story bay window gives the house its Stick Style character. The weatherboarding is interrupted with vertical exterior boards and corner boards. The gable is decorated with locally crafted bargeboard and a Palladian window with art glass. The bargeboard decoration is repeated in the purlins. The shed-roofed front porch has a gable over the front door, also decorated with a locally crafted bargeboard. The porch columns are turned posts on brick piers, with sunburst brackets."