Historical Homes of Lubbock, Texas, Page 1
Mast-White House
The second house is the Mast-White House at 2301 Broadway. Originally located at 2219 13th Street, the Mast-White House was constructed in 1925 by A. M. Hensley for C. S. Mast, who was a member of the original faculty at Texas Technological College. It was purchased by L. O. "Pop" and Ercil "Mom" White in 1948. Active in youth work, the Whites were instrumental in founding the Baptist Student Union for Tech students. The house was acquired by the First Baptist Church in 1978 and donated to the Lubbock Heritage Society for relocation. It was moved to its current site in October 1981.
A. B. Davis House
This is the A. B. Davis house, built in 1911. According to the Lubbock Historical Society, Lubbock pioneers R. D. and Maud Benson built, the house but it was purchased by "Mr. Lubbock" A. B. Davis in 1928 and remained as the Davis Family residence until 1986. The A.B. Davis house represents a rare example of a high-styled bungalow, displaying the multi-gabled roof, wide overhanging eaves, rafter ends, deep porches with large square brick posts, and multipaned windows typical of the style at its grandest. The A.B. Davis house also boasts fine craftsmanship throughout the interior, including beautiful paneling, an unusual fireplace, and built-in bookcases in original condition.
Myrta Bacon House
The Warren and Myrta Bacon House, 1802 Broadway, Lubbock, Texas, United States, was designed and built from plans by W. M. Rice of Amarillo, Texas, in 1916. It was designed along neo-classical lines for Warren A. Bacon, a successful local businessman, and civic leader. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Tubbs-Carlisle House
Timber for use in the construction of this house was cut from trees selected by Isham Tubbs while on a return trip to their prior home in Kaufman County, Texas some 500 miles to the East. After milling, the lumber was railed to Colorado City, Childress, and Amarillo, Texas, as the Railway neared Lubbock, and hauled to the site from those railheads by horse and wagon. There is cured onsite until construction was begun in 1907 and finished in 1908. The House was modeled after one found in a magazine picture or catalog fancied by Texana Tubbs. As the house began to take shape in framing, Uncle Gus and Aunt Lizzie expressed a desire to live there also, so they helped with the addition on the North side of a smaller quarter for their abode. The construction utilizes pier and beam Queen Anne Styling, from the end of the Victorian Era. It has 1':1' pitch roofs, numerous cupolas, "fish scaling" gables with "Gingerbread" scroll work, and extensive curved and squared porches on the front and a squared porch on the back.
Holden House
Located at 3107 20th Street, "This is the first adobe that was built in Lubbock, Texas," said Holden House owner Connie Goodwin. Goodwin is also another first. She is the first owner not related to the Holden family who originally built the pueblo-style house on 20th and Flint. The 1930s home is known as "Casa Grande." It's one of only a few adobe homes on the South Plains. The original owner, Curry Holden, was a professor of history and anthropology at Texas Tech and was the first director of the university's museum. He would later become the namesake for Tech's Holden Hall. Holden's wife Olive dreamed of one day building an adobe home after falling in love with the pueblo style during a college course.
Landwer-Manicapelli House
This house is located in north Lubbock's Yellowhouse Canyon. It is a Spanish colonial-style stucco structure built by Texas Technological College zoology professor M. Frederic Landwer in 1936. It was purchased after WWII by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Manicapelli and was acquired by the city of Lubbock in 1972. This house is easy to find but unfortunately, it appears to have been the victim of graffiti and other damage, considering that plywood covers half of its facade.