House (Letitia Rosenberg Home for Aged Women)

House (Letitia Rosenberg Home for Aged Women)

House (Letitia Rosenberg Home for Aged Women) Photograph by Gerald Moorhead
1896, Alfred Muller. 1804 Rosenberg Ave.

Another beneficiary of Henry Rosenberg's largesse was this home for aged women, built with Rosenberg's $30,000 bequest as a memorial to his first wife. Muller's design, his largest surviving institutional building, was severely damaged in the Storm of 1900 but reconstructed. The high-raised, stucco-faced brick building presents a grandly scaled symmetrical elevation—double loggias framed by gabled wings—to Rosenberg Avenue, while opening in an L-plan configuration to the prevailing southeast breeze and views toward the Gulf of Mexico.

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