Newsom-Moss House
420 Mantooth, Lufkin, TXShown on the 1927 Sanborn map. The 1928 directory lists Delmas and Jacque Newsom at 506 Mantooth; he worked at the Lufkin Coca-Cola Bottling Company. The 1937 directory list the Newsoms at 420 Mantooth; he was Associate Manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. The different addresses can probably be attributed to a large-scale address change throughout the city between 1928 and 1937, noted in the directories.
Even though the clay tile roof has been removed and replaced with a composition roof it is the only example of a small Mediterranian Revival style residence extant in Lufkin. The significance is architecture at the local level.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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