Old House Year Built

[Whitesman]

Found this old house and took some photos and was wondering any experts on the forum could estimate the year this one was built.

It has a upper window on the one side that I could see, so it looks to me like a 2 story structure.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o135/Whitesman/frontview2.jpg

[TexasVines]

if it is on the origional lot and you know the address the tax records should say the year

I would guess early to mid 30s, but I usually don't stay at holiday inn

[Dan the Man]

Looks like an old farmhouse. I'd say that it was probably built between 1890 and 1920.

[isuredid]

Found this old house and took some photos and was wondering any experts on the forum could estimate the year this one was built.

It has a upper window on the one side that I could see, so it looks to me like a 2 story structure.

That house was cobbled together and contains both 19th and 20th century elements. It is on a piece of land that was owned by Mathias Stuer in the 19th century. Mathias was a German farmer who also ran a store along there when the road still followed the RR tracks. That area was called Eureka until the 1940s because of the Eureka textile and lumber Mills that were there from 1866-1875. The house used to sit along the old road, but was moved when they re-routed the highway in the early 1930s. Back then it belonged to the Zahn family. A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family. It used to be a farm. There is still an old windmill on the property.

[Dan the Man]

That house was cobbled together and contains both 19th and 20th century elements. It is on a piece of land that was owned by Mathias Stuer in the 19th century. Mathias was a German farmer who also ran a store along there when the road still followed the RR tracks. That area was called Eureka until the 1940s because of the Eureka textile and lumber Mills that were there from 1866-1875. The house used to sit along the old road, but was moved when they re-routed the highway in the early 1930s. Back then it belonged to the Zahn family. A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family. It used to be a farm. There is still an old windmill on the property.

Is this that old house near the Hempstead Hwy/Old Katy Rd intersection?

[isuredid]

Is this that old house near the Hempstead Hwy/Old Katy Rd intersection?

Yes, but past the RR trestle underpass going west. It is next to the Paradise Motel.

[editor]

That house was cobbled together and contains both 19th and 20th century elements. It is on a piece of land that was owned by Mathias Stuer in the 19th century. Mathias was a German farmer who also ran a store along there when the road still followed the RR tracks. That area was called Eureka until the 1940s because of the Eureka textile and lumber Mills that were there from 1866-1875. The house used to sit along the old road, but was moved when they re-routed the highway in the early 1930s. Back then it belonged to the Zahn family. A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family. It used to be a farm. There is still an old windmill on the property.

You can find out anything on HAIF!

[TJones]

You can find out anything on HAIF!

I'll second that !

Edited January 12, 2009 by TJones

[sevfiv]

A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family.

Could this family be the same that the Brunsville area was named after?

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=4512

[isuredid]

Could this family be the same that the Brunsville area was named after?

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=4512

No, it wasn't the same family. Brunsville was developed by H.H. Bruns, who was the county surveyor at the time.

[plumber2]

That house was cobbled together and contains both 19th and 20th century elements. It is on a piece of land that was owned by Mathias Stuer in the 19th century. Mathias was a German farmer who also ran a store along there when the road still followed the RR tracks. That area was called Eureka until the 1940s because of the Eureka textile and lumber Mills that were there from 1866-1875. The house used to sit along the old road, but was moved when they re-routed the highway in the early 1930s. Back then it belonged to the Zahn family. A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family. It used to be a farm. There is still an old windmill on the property.

I used to take a short cut to a plumbing supply house located on 11th St. If you turn north off of Hempstead Highway directly after the RR underpass and wind your back into that factory area, you will drive through the old Eureka town-site. There are a handful of houses still standing similar to the one in this photograph. the area seems to be very run down and in danger of disappearing before too long.

[isuredid]

I used to take a short cut to a plumbing supply house located on 11th St. If you turn north off of Hempstead Highway directly after the RR underpass and wind your back into that factory area, you will drive through the old Eureka town-site. There are a handful of houses still standing similar to the one in this photograph. the area seems to be very run down and in danger of disappearing before too long.

That area you speak of is the Letein Subdivision and came later, around the turn of the century. The Leitein subdivision was built on the old Willima P. Rogers homestead site. That area was Rogers home when he was killed at Shiloh in the Civil War. His wife Martha continued to live there for a time after he died.

William Peleg Rogers

Edited January 16, 2009 by isuredid

[photolitherland]

I dont know what others have said on this forum but Id say that structure was built anywhere from 1885-1915 most likely. Its hard to tell though, could even be as late as 1925. The architecture used on these types of buildings was almost the same during these times.

[Whitesman]

That house was cobbled together and contains both 19th and 20th century elements. It is on a piece of land that was owned by Mathias Stuer in the 19th century. Mathias was a German farmer who also ran a store along there when the road still followed the RR tracks. That area was called Eureka until the 1940s because of the Eureka textile and lumber Mills that were there from 1866-1875. The house used to sit along the old road, but was moved when they re-routed the highway in the early 1930s. Back then it belonged to the Zahn family. A Zahn daughter married a man named Bruns and inherited the house. The house still belongs to the Bruns family. It used to be a farm. There is still an old windmill on the property.

Thanks for all the replies, and was just wondering ---why it would have 2 doors on the front side of the house??