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.

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