Kaulbach Home
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Built 1885 by H. B. Kaulbach (1839-1919), insurance agent. The Victorian style exhibits two-story columnar gallery, graceful arches supported by thin, turned columns. This structure includes 5 rooms of house previously on site. Architect was C. Michaelis. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1968.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Insurance agent H. B. Kaulbach built this La Grange home in 1885, incorporating five rooms of an earlier house on the site. Designed by architect C. Michaelis, its Victorian exterior shows off a two-story columnar gallery and graceful arches carried on slender turned columns. The house was named a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1968.
Why it matters
The elaborate Victorian home reflects the prosperity and architectural ambition of small-town Texas businessmen during the Gilded Age.
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Related people
- · H. B. Kaulbach
- · C. Michaelis
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