Brooking-Lipscomb-White House
Goliad, Goliad County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Three early Goliad families are associated with this home. Bivian Brooking built the house before 1850. Dr. Leonidas S. Lipscomb (1827 - 1913) bought the property in 1879 from Brooking's children. In 1905 the house was purchased by Ruth P. and James A. White. The one-story early Texas Vernacular home features a central hall/enclosed dog trot, side entry bays, triangular lintels on the window frames, and broken-pitch roof with chimneys at the gable ends. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1986
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This one-story home in early Goliad passed through three families whose names it now carries. Bivian Brooking built it before 1850; Dr. Leonidas S. Lipscomb bought it from Brooking's children in 1879; and Ruth P. and James A. White purchased it in 1905. Its early Texas Vernacular design — a central hall or enclosed dog-trot, triangular window lintels, and a broken-pitch roof with gable-end chimneys — preserves the everyday building traditions of the young state.
Why it matters
Modest surviving homes like this one document how ordinary Texans lived and built in the decades around statehood, before mass-produced materials standardized American housing.
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Related people
- · Bivian Brooking
- · Leonidas S. Lipscomb
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