Beilharz House

Beilharz House

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c. 1885. 2800 Swiss Ave.

Built by Theodore Beilharz, the master stone-cutter who built Old Red (DS1) and the Ellis County Courthouse (CW19), this Queen Anne house has several highly individualistic features exceeding the normal variations. It faces both streets on the corner site, with a broad Dutch gable that extends beyond the house to form a deep porch carried on three brick piers. An octagonal tower forms the transition from this bold front to the lower Texas Street side, where a conventional porch is supported on paired turned posts in an Eastlake manner.

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