Barr, William Braxton, House
a.k.a. Sprinkle House
NE of Austin at 10463 Sprinkle Rd., Austin, TXBuilt in the last decade of the 19th-century for a prominent local businessman, the Barr House is a fine example of late-Victorian architecture in Texas, with striking ornamentation in the Eastlake and Colonial Revival modes. William Barr, the owner, founded the adjacent town of Sprinkle and helped develop his part of Travis County into a prosperous farming and commercial area. It is also noteworthy that the Barr House was designed and built by a prominent Austin architect, Charles Page, at the beginning of his career. The house has, then, both architectural and historic significance and interest.
Bibliography
Berkley, Mary, 1970. A History of Central Texas. Privately published, Austin.
Davis, Ellis A. and Edwin H. Grobe, n.d. New Encyclopedia of Texas. Texas Development Bureau, Dallas.
Austin American Statesman, July 19, 1969. Travis County Deed and Title Records, County Courthouse, Austin, Travis County Probate Office, County Courthouse, Austin.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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