Gingerbread House
Chireno, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built about 1895. Victorian architecture. Heart pine and other fine materials used, including brass hardware. Many porches; carved skirt, fascia and cornice boards. Other ornate trim details. Restored by the C. V. Lindseys Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Raised around 1895 in the small East Texas community of Chireno, the "Gingerbread House" is a showpiece of late Victorian craftsmanship. Its builders used heart pine and other fine materials, including brass hardware, and lavished the exterior with carved skirt boards, fascia, cornices, and ornate trim across its many porches. Later carefully restored by the C. V. Lindsey family, it survives as a testament to small-town Victorian taste.
Why it matters
The house preserves the exuberant decorative woodwork of the Victorian era in rural Texas, where fine architecture flourished far from any city.
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Related people
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