Music Room

ID: 1000 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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The Pipkin and Garrett family held the longest tenure in the castle, residing there between 1941 and 1969. Nevertheless, they changed little about the design that Captain Abeel and Roy E. Lane created other than designing a music room on the second floor in order to pursue one of Pauline’s passions.

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Cottonland Castle

By Amanda Sawyer

Near the turn of the twentieth century, a booming cotton industry was quickly establishing Waco as one of the major urban centers of the South, encouraging many residents to more readily invest and spend their money locally. In 1890, local stone…