House – Bessie

This one-story wood-framed house is composed of gabled and hipped bays, or abbreviated wings, projecting at right angles from a central mass with steeply pitched hipped roof which extends down to become the roof of the porch. Decorative shingles clad the front gable end; one turned post survives on the porch. The house appears to date from c. 1905, which is the date that appears in the county tax assessor’s records. The earliest recorded owners are the Mangham family, who retained possession until 1922 but did not reside in the house. After passing through two other owners, the property was purchased in 1927 by Homer Hawkins, an engineer with the Fort Worth, Denver & Colorado Railroad. His widow sold the house in 1941. It is a vigorously composed example of a common house type. This resource has been demolished.

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