Monroe-Crook House
707 E. Houston St., Crockett, TXThe Monroe-Crook House was built in 1854 by Armistead Thompson Monroe. Monroe was the son of Augustine Garrett Monroe, a nephew of President James Monroe. A.T. Monroe left Virginia when he was eighteen years old and went to New York first, and apparently in 1842 or 1843 came to Texas. Shortly after his arrival in Texas Monroe established his residence in Crockett and established a mercantile business. Monroe became a leading merchant of Crockett and in 1854 built the commodious late Greek Revival cottage at 707 E. Houston Street. Following A.T. Monroe, the house has been occupied by Dan Coleman, Oliver C. Aldrich, and Judge Armistead A. Aldrich, and since 1911 the property has been occupied by George W. Crook and his descendants. Sara Crook Bartlett, daughter of George W. Crook, provided in her will that the house be used as public property in the interest of the Houston County community.
Bibliography
Bracken, Dorothy Kendall and Maurine Whorton Redway. Early Texas Homes. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1956.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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