Demise of the Marvelous House

ID: 1748 ~ Source: Barnes, Lavonia Leverett Jenkins, interviewed by Pamela B. Crow, March 8, 1976, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Lavonia Jenkins Barnes tells the cost of the upkeep of the William Cameron house and her feelings about its demolition.

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By Sarah Miller
For eighty-eight years, the William Cameron House stood as a nineteenth-century architectural treasure near the intersection of Twelfth Street and Austin Avenue. The fine embellishments on the mansion dazzled Waco residents, and helped it to become…