Historical Marker
Hodge-Taylor House
Historical marker location:
Jefferson, Texas
( 1 mi. SW of jct. of US 59 and TX 49, W.)
Marker installed: 1965
Berry and Lavenia (Boggs) Hodge moved here from Kentucky and had this house built along the Daingerfield Road in 1852. Among their five children, son Robert Blount, of the 3rd Texas Cavalry, C.S.A., died from wounds in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Hodge, a prominent landowner and surveyor, sold the property to D.W.H. Taylor, buisnessman and publisher of the Jefferson Jimplecute. T.J. Taylor, Jr. restored the residence in the 1950s. The classically proportioned Greek Revival style home features a cypress exterior, a prominent portico, interior chimneys and large rooms flanking a central passageway. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1964.