Historical Marker
Spence-Chamberlain House
Historical marker location:
717 E. Houston, Crockett, Texas
( 717 E. Houston Ave.)
Marker installed: 1994
This house was built by teacher and lawyer John Spence and his wife Adele, also a teacher, about 1870. John died in 1879, and in 1891 Adele sold the house to druggist B. Frank Chamberlain and his wife Una. Sometime prior to 1920 the Chamberlains attached a kitchen to the house and added bay windows. The house exhibits a foursquare configuration with symmetrical windows and center dormer on a pyramidal roof. It remained in the Chamberlain family until 1978.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1994.