Erskine House No. 1
a.k.a. Hollamon House
902 N. Austin St., Seguin, TXHollamon House, in Seguin, Guadalupe County, is actually two houses in one. Dr. Benjamin Lea moved one part of the hous house to Seguin in 1867 and attached it to a four-room concrete structure built by Captain Sedy in 1855. The two parts created an outstanding piece of architecture that was given an Award of Merit by the Builders Survey of Texas (Virginia Woods, letter, April 22, 1970).
Lea moved his house from Prairie Lea by placing it on wooden wheels. Oxen drew it thirty miles to Seguin and Lea connected the sections with galleries. An outside stairway led from the lower to the upper porch near an inner wall. The house had nine fireplaces and four chimneys; the two lower living rooms were filled with fine walnut furniture.
Sometime after 1870 Lea's house was renamed for Michael Erskine, chief justice of Guadalupe County and leader of the first cattle drive from Guadalupe to California.
Later Mrs. Tom Hollamon, Jr., granddaughter of Michael Erskine, owns the house. House plans are recorded in the Library of Congress.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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