Lawton L. Gambill, an attorney with the law firm Allen & Gambill, moved into this Westover Hills residence with his wife Myrtle in 1935. The one and one-half story residence was constructed by contractor A. C. Luther for Byrne & Luther, Inc., developers active in Westover Hills; the architectural design is by Joseph I. Patterson, … Read more
This prominent, two and one-half story house, faced in brick painted white, is designed in a Colonial Revival style suggestive of Mount Vernon. The design was the work of architect Victor Marr Curtis for Byrne & Luther, Inc.. A full, two-story, shed-roofed portico stretches across the front elevation, supported by six monumental boxed columns; above … Read more
William H. and Pauline Tyler purchased this house about 1936. Tyler was president of Tyler & Simpson, a wholesale groceries firm based at the T & P Warehouse. Constructed by Byrne & Luther, Inc., developers who built many homes in Westover Hills, the house is an eclectic, two-story Period Revival style design faced in dark … Read more
Frank M. and Alta L. Fillingim resided in this house from 1937 to 1946; Mr. Fihingim was president of Fillingim Motor Co., and later was manager of Greenwood Cemetery. The Georgian Revival style house is two stories in height, faced in warm red brick set in Flemish bond with a gable roof clad in red … Read more
At the end of a secluded, wooded drive, this house features a large, two-story classical pedimented portico supported by Doric columns. The first owner was Dexter W. Scurlock, a lawyer, who resided here from about 1930 to 1936. A. J. Broderick, an oil man, owned the residence until about 1945. The house evidently underwent a … Read more
Secluded by trees and a wall on its private parcel, this house was erected in 1938 for Anne Burnett Hall, Samuel Burk Burnett’s granddaughter, and her husband, James G. Hall, president of Gypsy Oil Co. Mrs. Hall later married Robert F. Windfohz Prominent Houston architect John F. Staub designed the large, two-story residence of irregular, … Read more
This two-story house, of generally rectangular plan, has a picturesque composition of intersecting hipped and gabled roofs clad in red clay shingle tile. A veneer of dark red variegated brick is highlighted by quoins and an offset, projecting por tico containing an arched entry faced in random ashlar lime stone. Contractor A. C. Luther is … Read more
Set in the midst of one of the most exclusive residential developments in Texas, Westover Hills Town Hall was designed in a revival of the Georgian Colonial style adopted by the eighteenth-century Virginia gentry. The $108,847.39 Works Progress Administration project was completed in 1940; at the formal opening and dedication ceremony on 7 November 1940, … Read more