This is one of the landmark small houses of Galveston. With the simplest of means—a curved-cornered double gallery with arcuated lintels and circular baluster panels, and a semicircular “thermal” window (so-called because adapted from the thermae, the monumental public bath houses of Imperial Rome)—Tyndall impressed this narrow, raised house with lilting rhythms that seem especially characteristic of Galveston's late-nineteenth-century domestic architecture.