Eclectic Style

ID: 995 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Eclectic Style

Although the front door stood ten feet tall and eight inches thick, weighing around four hundred pounds, it was reportedly so well balanced that even a small child could move it with ease. A prospective buyer for the home once noted that the "door sets the style for the [entire] house, which is eclectic."

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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…