A. M. Armand House
Houston, Harris County, Texas
Marker Inscription
New Orleans native Albert M. Armand was a clerk for Ahrens & Ott, a Houston plumbing supply company, by 1910. On Sep. 15, 1911, he bought block 6 lot 5 in the Avondale neighborhood from the greater Houston land and improvement company for $2,000. Armand lived here for only two years before selling the house, which had several owners and residents in its early history. The two-story, asymmetrical, side gabled house exhibits arts & crafts styling in its wraparound porch with full-height square wood columns, gabled portico highlighting the entry, and knee brackets on the eaves of the main house and porch.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
New Orleans native Albert M. Armand, a clerk for a Houston plumbing-supply firm, bought this Avondale lot in 1911 and built a two-story Arts and Crafts home with a wraparound porch and full-height wood columns. He lived here only two years before selling, and the house passed through a string of early owners. Its knee-bracketed eaves and gabled entry portico still mark the character of a growing streetcar-era neighborhood.
Why it matters
The house captures the everyday middle-class ambition that filled out Houston's first suburbs as the city swelled in the early twentieth century.
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