Image: Holcombe House, Houston

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Description: Businessman and developer Oscar Holcombe (1888-1968) and his wife Mary hired Houston architect L. W. Lindsay to design this home. Completed in 1925, it featured gardens designed by landscape architect Herbert L. Skogland. Outstanding features of the Tudor revival style house include a gabled and hipped roofscape, decorative half-timbering, a bay window, an elaborate chimney, and an entry portico with decorative brickwork. Holcombe, who served eleven nonconsecutive terms as mayor of Houston between 1921 and 1957, continued to live here until his death. Today (2020) it is a Hospice.
Title: Holcombe House, Houston
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Author: Jim Evans
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List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks (Grayson-Hudspeth)

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