Pickering House (Victoria, Texas)

The Pickering House, at 403 N. Glass in Victoria, Texas, was built c.1850s. In about 1911 it was remodelled to a Classical Revival design by architect Jules Leffland.

Pickering House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pickering House in 2014
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Location	403 N. Glass, Victoria, Texas
Coordinates	28°48′10″N 97°0′24″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1855 (1855)
Architect	Jules Leffland
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Victoria MRA
NRHP reference No.	86002553[1]
Added to NRHP	December 9, 1986

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The listing included four contributing buildings.^[1]

The house has an asymmetrical plan and a two-story porch across its front. The original house was built for sea captain A. F. Higgs, entrepreneur of the Texas Continental Meat Co., possibly in the 1850s. Joe M. Pickering, a businessman and co-founder of the Anchor Lumber Co., bought the house in 1908.^[2]

It was listed on the NRHP as part of a study which listed numerous historic resources in the Victoria area.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places portal
• Texas portal

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Victoria County, Texas

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Daniel Hardy (1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination / Historic Sites Inventory: Pickering House". National Archives. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) (accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog Archived January 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine)
3. Daniel Hardy, Marlene Heck, David Moore, Morgan Dunn O'Connor and John Ferguson (June 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Historic Resources of Victoria, Texas". Retrieved February 16, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)