Historical Marker
Purvines Ranch Home
Historical marker location:
501 Elsie, Panhandle, Texas
( Square House Museum, SH 207, 5th and Elsie Street, Panhandle.)
Marker installed: 1964
Built 1906-08 in land of lumber scarcity by Carroll and Kate Purvines, (from Illinois) of cement blocks they made by hand, using local sand.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.