National Register Listing

Bailetti House

a.k.a. Site #17

1006 Waller St., Austin, TX

The Bailetti House is a one-story, raised cottage with two entries opening from either side of a deeply inset porch. It is of simple wood-frame construction covered with clapboard siding, and is characterized by a symmetrical facade and hipped roof with two corbeled-brick chimneys. The two-over-two, double-hung sash windows, which are set to each side of the porch, are surmounted by simple, pointed hood moulds. The porch itself is marked with two delicately carved brackets that form the only significant decorative elements on the house.

1006 Waller Street was constructed in 1886 by W. S. Rogers for Salvatore Bailetti, a prominent, early East Austin merchant who owned a drug and grocery store, as well as a saloon, located across Waller Street at 1001 East 11th Street (see Site No. 19). The Bailetti House is architecturally .significant because of its unusual "duplex" form (of which it is a unique example in East Austin), for its completeness, and for its almost unaltered condition.

Local significance of the building:
Commerce; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.