Czech immigrant restaurateur Joe Kovandovitch designed this reinforced concrete house on the high bank overlooking the Trinity River.

An enclosed ground floor acts as a podium for an Ionic-columned loggia above; it now faces the I-35 freeway. A four-columned porch on the opposite side is the Eads Avenue entrance. The cubic mass of the house, with heavy corner walls, small-paned windows, flat roofs with a thin overhang, cast-concrete floral panels, and the transverse top floor with a bowed roof convey a Viennese Secession character.