Cloud-Stark House - Gainesville, TX
N 33° 37.312 W 097° 08.736
14S E 672017 N 3721771
The Cloud-Stark House is a two story wood frame structure located in one of Gainesville's oldest and most affluent neighborhoods, comprised of mostly Victorian, Queen Anne, and early 20th century residences.
Waymark Code: WMCTWY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2011
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Constructed c.1885 by cattleman Isaac Cloud, the Cloud-Stark house retains much of its original Victorian Italianate detailing, while renovations done between 1902 and 1908 added classical elements. Minor alterations to the home have been done, but the Cloud-Stark House remains much as it did in 1908.
The house stands as one of the oldest extant residences in Gainesville, TX and is a vital physical link to the city's early prosperity as a cattle boom town during the late 1800s. The house was also the birthplace of Rose Lewin Franken (daughter of the home's second owners) who later achieved fame as a novelist and playwright during the 1940s and 1950s. After the murder of the home's third owner (and his son), the house was sold in 1906 to H.W. Stark, and the structure has remained in the same family for over seventy-five years.
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