H. P. Luckett House
Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas
Marker Inscription
H. P. LUCKETT HOUSE BASTROP ACADEMY OPERATED HERE FROM 1851 TO 1892. THE CITY THEN SOLD THE LOT TO DR. HUMPHREY POWELL LUCKETT (1847-1925) AND HIS WIFE, FRANCES “FANNIE” (HAYNIE) (1849-1930). THE COUPLE MARRIED AND MOVED TO BASTROP IN 1869, RAISING FIVE SONS. BY LATE 1893, THEIR HOME DESIGNED BY LA GRANGE ARCHITECT LOUIS G. MAUER WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DR. LUCKETT, AN AUTHORITY ON YELLOW FEVER, WAS NAMED CITY HEALTH OFFICER IN 1897. IN 1936, HEIRS SOLD THE HOUSE TO ALEX AND LUCILLE WAUGH, WHO RAISED FOUR CHILDREN DOWNSTAIRS WHILE RENTING APARTMENTS ABOVE. THE QUEEN ANNE-STYLE HOUSE INCLUDES 14 ROOMS, A COLORFUL FAÇADE, DOUBLE WRAPAROUND GALLERIES WITH TURNED BALUSTERS AND POSTS, JIGSAWN BRACKETS, FISHSCALE SHINGLES, AND CARVED INTERIOR WOODWORK. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK – 2011
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
From 1851 to 1892 this lot held the Bastrop Academy; the city then sold it to Dr. Humphrey Powell Luckett and his wife Frances, who by 1893 had this ornate Queen Anne home under construction to a La Grange architect's design. Dr. Luckett, an authority on yellow fever, was named city health officer in 1897. The fourteen-room house—with double wraparound galleries, fishscale shingles, and carved woodwork—was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 2011.
Why it matters
The site joins a nineteenth-century academy to the home of a pioneering public-health physician, tracing a Texas town's investment in both education and the fight against epidemic disease.
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Related people
- · Dr. Humphrey Powell Luckett
- · Frances "Fannie" Haynie Luckett
- · Louis G. Mauer
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