HomeMy WebLinkAboutCavitt House Historical Marker App Brazos County Historical Commission
1200 Goode Street
College Station, TX 77840
The Cavitt House, located at 713 East 30th Street in Bryan, will be designated a
Recorded Texas Historical Landmark by the Brazos County Historical Commission at
2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 10 during the Historical Homes Tour of the Brazos
Heritage Society. Built some time between 1875 and 1880 by William R. Cavitt and his
wife Mary Mitchell Cavitt, the house remained in the family until 1981. Mr. Cavitt, known
most of his life as "Major" Cavitt, was born in Wheelock on July 4, 1849. Mrs. Cavitt
was a niece of Col. Harvey Mitchell, widely known as an early citizen of Brazos County
who played a major role in bringing Texas A &M University to the county in 1987.
The Brazos Heritage Society purchased the Cavitt house and surrounding
grounds in 1981, subdivided the property into three Tots, contributed one of those lots to
the city of Bryan for the current Heritage Park, and sold a second lot to Dr. Russell
Bradley, who shortly thereafter moved a turn of the century house there as his
residence. In 1982 the Heritage Society sold the Cavitt house to Dr. and Mrs. Peter M.
McIntyre, who made necessary repairs to the house, which had been vacant for several
years. The Mclntyres also began restoration of the house before selling it to Dr. and
Mrs. Paul Van Riper in 1986. The Van Ripers completed the restoration of the house to
its 1920s form. The Cavitt house has regularly been on historical and other homes
tours for over a decade and has been on the National Register of Historical Properties
since 1976.
Aline Brogdon, who, like the first Mrs. Cavitt, is also a descendant of Harvey
Mitchell and familiar with the lives and activities of the Cavitt family, will be the featured
speaker at the dedication of the marker on February 10. She will speak about her
recollections of the Cavitts. Ms Brogdon is well known for her many years in the
banking business in Bryan and for her involvement in and support of social and cultural
activities in Bryan and College Station.
Dr. Paul Van Riper will present the marker, and County Judge Al Jones will
formally receive it on behalf of Brazos County.
For further information, contact
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Van Riper, 822 -2082
Dr. Charles R. Schultz, Chair, Brazos County Historical Commission, 862 -1555
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APPLICATION FORM
• OFFICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER
(PLEASE COMPLETE BOTH SIDES OF FORM.)
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j This marker is for (title or subject): The Ca vitt House
County: Brazos
1 Marker location (street address and city, or specific directions from nearest town on state highway map):
1 713 E. 30th St., Bryan, TX 77803
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APPROVAL OF COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION
1 The application and narrative history must be approved by the county historical commission before
{ forwarding to the Texas Historical Commission.
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Chairperson's Signature: Date:
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1 Address: Phone:
The CHC chair automatically will receive all copies of correspondence regarding this marker project.
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PERMISSION OF OWNER FOR MARKER PLACEMENT
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Permission for placement of a marker must be obtained by the property owner. Please provide the name of
a contact person if the owner is an institution, organization, or public entity. This section need not be
completed if the marker is to be placed on right -of -way maintained by the Texas Department of Transporta-
tion.
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Name: Paul P. and Dorothy D. Van Riper
Contact person (if applicable):
Mailingaddress: 713 E. 30th St. , Bryan, TX 77803
Phone: 409/822 -2082
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Owner's Signature: )U C. �I -- 'Ls ,� y J— kg - i, 44 �7, '
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• Name: To owners at above address
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If the marker is to be placed on the highway right -of -way, it will be shipped directly to the district highway engineer.
. Name: Paul P. Van Riper ('
Street address: 713 E. 30th St., Bryan, TX 77803
Phone: 409/822-2082
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If not on post, to what (block of granite, gatepost, etc.) will the marker be attached?
Type of material? (wood, stone, etc.)
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Markers
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deemed worthy of preservation for their architectural integrity and historical associations. The RTHL designation does
carry a measure of legal protection for the structure (see Marker Policies 13 through 18) and for that reason we must have
a legal description (lot and block numbers) for the property to be designated. The most commonly used marker for
conveying this designation is the medallion and plate (also referred to as a building marker); however, the 18" x 28" or
• 27" x 42" size marker may be ordered for those who wish a greater amount of historical information to appear in the
marker text. Careful attention should be paid so as not to damage historic building material if the marker is to be mounted
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70 Medallion and 16" x 12" plate without post (see below) $350
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O 18" x 28" marker with post $550
❑ 18" x 28" marker without post (see below) $500
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If not on post, to what (building, gate, etc.) will the marker be attached? To the house (front by door
Type of material? (wood, stone, etc.) stuccoed brick
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY (lot and block number; metes and bounds):
Block 16, lot 1, Philips Addition, Rapist, according to the plat. recorded
in vol. 744, p. 79 of the Deed Reco of Brezna County, TX
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following items. Incomplete applications cannot be considered and may be returned to the applicant.
✓ completed application form signed by the county historical commission ,
✓ narrative history with reference notes and bibliography
✓ photograph of the proposed marker location
✓ map indicating marker location and other sites related to the marker topic
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Local History Programs, Texas Historical Commission
• P.O. Box 12276, Austin, Texas 78711 -2276
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Please contact the Local History Programs office for a separate order form.
Rev. 1994
The Cavitt House
by
Paul P. van Riper, March 1995
The structure that is the subject of this application has been known
for many years as the Cavitt House, 715 E. 50th St., Bryan, Texas, in the
center of Bryan's East Side Historical District. This large Italianate
villa style brick house, built in the late eighteen seventies by Willian
Richard Cavitt (1849 -1924) and somewhat simplified in 1920, is considered
to be the oldest home of any size in the county. It was the family home-
stead of the Cavitt family -- mother, father and six children - -for almost
precisely a century, the last family owner, a daughter, dying in 1978.
The Cavitt House is already on the National Register of Historic
Places, having been entered therein on October 27, 1976. National Register
designation did not require written permission of the owners, but the
award of a Texas marker does require such. The Texas recognition would
have been sought in 1976 but the two surviving sisters who then owned the
house were in St. Joseph's Hospital and unable to rake the decision.
To follow is, first, a survey of the ownership of the house and
information about the occupants, especially the Cavitt family; second, a
review of its modifications through time; and, third, a description of
architectural and other features, both exterior and interior. Attached
are photographs and copies of relevant documents; sources are footnoted.
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Cavitt, p. 2
Owners
C*.vitt purchased the city block on which the house stands for
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$1,000 in January 1875. Tradition has it that he brought his new
bride,Mary Mitchell Cavitt, into the newly constructed house during
the next October. However, the county assessor's records show the assessed
value of the property as rising from $1,000 to $4,000 in 1881. There are
no original house plans extant nor other records to show building date.
The best estimate is that the house could have been built as early as
18 �5 and as late as 1879 or 1880.
The Cavitts came to Texas from Virginia via Tennessee, settling
in Wheelock, Texas. William R. Cavitt, known most of his life as "Major"
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Cavitt, was born in Wheelock on July 4, 1849. He was a graduate of the
University of Virginia, a lawyer, and county attorney from 1878 to 1880
and again from 1882 to 1884. He represented the county in the state legis-
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lature for two terms in the 1880s, Appointed to the Board of Directors
of Texas A&M University by Gov. L.S. Ross in 1883, Cavitt served unttl
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1396. His wife was a niece of Col. Harvey Mitchell, often referred to as
the "Father of Brazos Country." There were six children. Family names
and dates are as followst W.R. (1849 - 1924), Mary his wife (1854- 1914),
W. Horace (1876- 1926), Ethel (1878- 1977), Howard (1881 - 1913), Fred (1385_
1950), and the twins Esther (1891 -1958) and Edith (1891- 1878). The
family affiliated early with the First Presbyterian Church. W.R. was the
second superintendent of the Sunday School; Fred was a deacon and elder;
and the sisters all served terms as historian for the Women of the Church.
During 1950s and 1960s the Devitt sisters donated more than eight
acres of land for the building of a new church and outbuildings. W.R.,
the father, became perhaps the largest land developer in Bryan during the
Cavitt, p. 5
ear first quarter of this century. At the time of his death he owned much
of the land between his home and College Station _four miles away. Named
for family members are Cavitt Avenue, Twin Boulevard (for the twins Edith
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and Esther), and Esther and Ethel Streets, all in Bryan.
W. R. Cavitt willed the city block and its house to the surviving
children who, in turn, willed them to their surviving siblings. There
was only one grandchild, a daughter of Horace. She married a cousin,
Hillsman Wilson of Houston. They adopted a child, Anne, and the W.R.
Cavitt line ended. The last two sisters died in the winter of 1977 -78
and the house, vacant for some years because these sisters - -now million -
naires from family land sales- -had taken up residence in St. Joseph's
Hospital in Bryan, went into the hands of estate lawyers. Most of the
combined estate went to charity, and the house, with its city block of
land, was sold to the Brazos County Citizens for Historic Preservation,
Inc., now known as the Brazos Heritage Society, on Nov. 5, 1931. 8 The
Heritage Society then resubdivided "he pity block into three lots, as
shown in Exhibit B. As the city of Bryan had helped the society purchase
the property, the western half of the block (lot 5, resubdivision) was
given to the city for what is now known as The Heritage Park. Lot 2 at
the south end of the eastern half was sold to a local dentist, Dr. Russell
Bradley, who shortly moved a turn of the century Queen Anne structure
there as his own residence.
On May 14, 1982, lot 1 of the resubdivision, including the house, was
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sold to Prof. and Mrs. Peter M. McIntyre. Prof. McIntyre has been a
member of the Physics department at Texas A&M University, well known for
his association with the Supercolider Project and the very recent discovery
of the smallest atomic particle. They commenced to renovate the property,
which was in a bad state of repair.
Cavitt, p. 4
The McIntyres sold the property to Prof. and Mrs. Paul P. Van Riper
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on Sept. 2, 1996, who continue to own and live in the home. Dr. Van Riper
is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former head of the department
at Texas A&M University. He and his wife were among the founding members
of the Brazos Heritage Society and he is a former president. He has been
a member of the Brazos County Historical Commission since 1976. The Van
Ripers continued and have largely completed the renovation of the home,
at least back to its 1920s form. Since the early 1980s the house has
regularly been on historical and other homes tours and is considered a
centerpiece of the Bryan East Side Historical District.
Cavitt, p. 5
Structural History
The basic and original house style is that of a late nineteenth
century Italianate villa, unusual in its three - bricks thick exterior and
central hall walls, supporting the interior beams. Interviews in 1981 with
two Bryan senior citizens, both then in their nineties, confirm that the
Cavitts undertook to simplify and "modernize" the house around 1920, so
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that it looked more Neo- Classical. This was done by removing much of
the Italianate gingerbread, stuccoing the exterior brick, replacing wood
porches with brick veneer concrete slabs, and installing three inch oak
flooring throughout most of the house. A reenforced concrete basement
with a trap door was installed under the kitchen in the early 1950s,
probably to serve as a bomb shelter.
The Mclntyres remodeled the upstairs bathroom, replaced a badly
damaged main door, repaired some of the brick, and began to repaint the
interior.
The Van Ripers completed a full renovation in 1986 -87. They repaired
and repainted the stuccoed walls and exterior woodwork, replaced four
badly deteriorated columns and a one story rear porch, and removed an
outside stairs corning down to the rear porch, these stairs not having been
original to the house. The original brick foundations were strengthened
throughout by supporting pier and beam foundations paralleling the brick
on the interior. The interior sheet - rocking of the walls, begun by the
Cavitts, was completed and the interior completely repainted in suitable
Victorian colors. A large downstairs closet was added in the library,
as well as a new stairway to the attic (there having been only a steep
ladder).
The home having always been a family residence, it has never been cut
up, made into apartments, or structurally altered in any significant way
C�vitt, p. 6
except for the stuccoing and removal of considerable gingerbread. The
Cavitt house is of particular historical importance to the city of
Bryan for it is the city's only Italianate structure and it represents
the earliest group of substantial structures built here. It is also
interesting topographically, for the house occupies the highest point
of land for ten miles around and the view from the top is exceptional.
Cavitt, p. 7
Architectural Description
The description here is taken from that prepared by Joe Williams,
representing the Texas State Historical Commission, in connection with the
1976 nomination for the National Register of Historic Places. The Cavitt
house is a two -story stuccoed brick masonry structure with load bearing
exterior walls. Including the kitchen basement, the house has about
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4,500 square feet of interior floor space, divided into 14 rooms.
The house consists of three elements, a two -story rectangular main
facade, a two story secondary block located immediately west of the main
block, and a one story kitchen ell located on the western side of the
secondary block. The eastern facade of the house exhibits the asymmetrical
massing and large fenestration typical of the Italianate style. The facade
is divided vertically in an A, B, C. C, pattern. The northeastern two -
thirds of the facade contains a deeply inset double gallery with wide bays
which frame entrances on both floors, flanked by two narrower bays on the
north side. Three pillars on each level support the galleries. They are
very austere with simple mitred cyma recta moulded caps and bases. The
pillars themselves are square wooden columns. The second floor gallery's
balustrade, however, is composed of slim machine turned wooden balusters.
The A- section of the facade contains a wide rectangular bay window on
the first floor with 2/2 light double hung sash windows. The bay has no
ornamentation or cornice other than the metal rain gutter which carries
runoff from its small wood shingled hipped roof. Above the bay are
paired 2/2 light double hung sash windows set within a single broad
opening with a stilted segmental arch. An identical bay window and stilted
arched window combination is located on the north side of the house.
Cavitt, p. 8
The main entrance consists of panelled double doors, each with a fixed
rectangular glass pane with a round headed two light transom which has a
single vertical mullion. The second floor gallery entrance is a panelled
door with a single pane arched transom. The first and second story entrances
on the west side of the house are similar.
The inset double galleries on the west side of the house are supported
by three chamfered square wooden columns on each level. The first floor
columns have simple mitred cyma recta moulded caps and bases. The second
floor columns are more elaborate with bolder cyma recta moulded caps
and trefoliated brackets. The balustrade is composed of wooden machine
turned balusters. The elaboration of the second floor is typical of the
Italianate style and is interpreted in the courthouse in only these few
details. In the early 20th century, a half turn staircase, supported on
crude wooden posts, was built at the southwest end of the gallery; this
has been removed.
The kitchen ell is connected to the western gallery by means of a
single story gallery consisting of a shed roof supported on three
chamfered columns with simple mitred and beveled caps and bases. The
kitchen ell, unlike the remainder of the Cavitt house, has double hung
4/4 light sash windows. The rectangular ell has a fireplace and chimney
on its north wall. The chimney is plastered brick and rises only slightly
above the ells ridge pole which runs east and west. A breezeway once
divided the ell from the two -story secondary block, but has been enclosed
with a stuccoed brick wall on its north side and a wood and glass frame
wall on the south side, both walls containing doors. A small brick
veneer concrete stoop with tubular steel handrails was added in the
Cavitt, p. 9
early 20th century. The stairs are at a right angle to the kitchen
ell's north wall. Similar brick veneer slabs were used to replace the
floors of the ground level galleries.
The Cavitt house has a subdued wooden frieze with raised discs and
rectalinear panels in alternating sequence. There is no cornice other
than the metal rain gutters. The two -story blocks have wood shingled
hipped roofs whose ridge poles intersect at a right angle. A "T" shaped
captain's walk serves to visually link the two separate roof elements.
The head of the "T" is located above the ridge pole of the eastern block.
The captain's walk has a simple slat balustrade. The floor of the captain's
walk is soldered metal, as are the floors of the two second floor porches.
There are a few other interesting features. The library (to the left
of the front door as one enters), which the Cavitts, for reasons unknown,
never finished during the 1920 renovation and used as a storeroom, has been
left much as the Cavitts left it so that the construction is easily visible.
Two of the three iron tie -rods spanning the building from east to west can
been seen in the ceiling of this room. The ceilings of the two bathrooms
are only seven to eight feet high. Above them are metal - lined, tarred
cisterns tied into the roof originally, to provide running water, which
did not come to Bryan until about 1900. Two rooms, one up and one down,
still have the old original pine floors. The ceilings are twelve feet down
and 11 feet up; all the room ceilings are of wood. There are three working
chimneys and five fireplaces. There are forty windows with five exterior
doors down and two up. The present furniture is more than half family.
Most is antique, varying from a William and Mary highboy of about 1700 to
Art Deco.
Cavitt, p. 10
There is an old garden in the rear, mainly for flowers, and the
original flower beds, marked by brick borders, are still visible. The
garden fence is wrought iron set in stonework, with an arched stone
entrance. Nearby is a stone and brick barbecue pit. The metal and
stonework here date from 1940, though the garden itself long antedates
that. The two outbuildings were probably built in the 1930s or 1940s.
The following photographs are attached as further exhibitss
1) Exhibit E, photo from early 1880s
2) Exhibit F, photo from the early 1920e
3) Exhibits G, H, I and J, current photos of four exterior sides
4) Exhibits K, L, and M, showing interior scenes
Cavitt, p. 11
Notes
1. See Exhibit A, letter of Nov. 2, 1976 from the National Park Service.
2. See Exhibit B. This is Block 16 of the Philips Addition as shown
on the plat in vol. M, p. 253 of the Brazos County Deed Records.
5. See Brazos County Assessor's Abstract Book, 1879 -1885, Philips
Addition, pp. 264 -65.
4. See Ellen B. Cavitt, Some Tracings of Cavett- Cavitt Family History,
1725 -1965, Waco, Texas, 1965, privately published, p. 100
5. Henry C. Dethloff, A Centennial History of Texas A&M University,
2 vols. (College Station, TX$ Texas A&M University Press, 1975), vol. I,
p. 121 and vol. II, pp. 612 -14. Cavitt became president of the board in
1886.
6. Most of the information about the family comes from two sourcess
William R. Cavitt's obituary titled "Major W.R. Cavitt Died Today," The
Bryan Eagle, August 28, 1924, p. 1; and a three page history of The Cavitt
Family" prepared by Dr. Harrison E. Hierth, former head of the TAMU English
department and long time associate of the Cavitts in the Presbyterian
Church, in 1982 on the basis of personal knowledge and the records of the
Church.
7. See Probate Files, Brazos County, #s 1289, 2290, 5088 and 5253.
8. See vol. 499, p. 848 of the Brazos County Deed Records.
9. See Exhibit B. The house went with lot 1, representing three -
quarters of the east half of the city block, or approximately an acre
and a half. A full city block in this addition is about four acres.
See also the Philips Addition replat in vol. 744, p. 79 of the county
deed records, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit B-2.
Cavitt, p.12
10. See vol. 520, D. 317 of the county deed records.
11. See vol. 912, p. 13 of the county deed records.
12. Interview with the Hanover sisters, Mrs. James H. Beard and
Mrs. Henry Wicks, Sept. 23, 1981.
13. See floor plans in Exhibits C and D.
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I L� 1cEYLY REFER TO •
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NOV 2 ig76
Honorable Alin _E. Teague
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
Dear Nr. Teague:
Thank you for your recent letter in behalf of M. Fnyllis Dozier
concerning the nomination of the Bryan Carnegie Library and the
Cavitt House, Bros County, Texas, to the National Register of
Historic Places.
We are pleased to advise you that both the Bryan Carnegie Library
and the Cavitt House were entered in the National Register on
October 27, 1976. Enclosed aro leaflets which describe the
National Register and grants- in-aid programs.
We appreciate your interest in historic preservation.
Sincerely yours,
Ernc °t Cc,.nafly
ssociate
Director
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dE ND DON BOCKMAN SURVEYS
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REPLAT PHILLIPS ADDITION
VOL. 744, PG. 79 D.R.B.C.
RESUBD /VISION
3' BUILDWG SETBACK LI/•E
N 45° 0..?' 00' W 2(13.,34_:
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LOT 3, BLOCK /6
RESUBD /VISION Paul P . Van Riper
Dorothy D. Van Riper
This Is to certify that I have this dale made a careful and accurate survey on the ground of the property located at
7/3 EAST 30 /h STREET In the City of BRYAN, BRAZOS COUNT
Texas, described as follows .
LOT NO. I BLOCK NO. /6 , CITY BLOCK NO. , of REPLAT PHILLIPS
Addition, lo the City of BRYAN, BRAZOS COUNTY
79 , Texas, according to the plat recorded In volume 744
p , of the Deed Records of Brazos County, Texas.
The plat hereon Is a true and accurate representation of the properly as delermined by survey, the lines and dimensions of said property being as Indicated
by the plat. The size, location, and type of buildings and Improvements are as shown, all Improvements being wIlNn the boundaries of the properly, and sel
back from property lines the distances Indicated. The distance from the nearest Inlersecltng street or road Is as shown on sold plat. There are no encroa-
chments, conflicts, or protrusions, except as noted)
NONE.
THIS PROPERTY l.; NOT WITHW THE LIMITS OF ANY KNOWN FLOOD PI AIN OR SPFt'IAL FLOOD HAZARD ARFA
cy
L O r TO
APL T T ES W WTES AND/OR Th£ OWP£RS OF 4 PREN/SE SLRVEYED AND
( ��Q. + � • +. ° • F ,K STED h/ ;/E' T1TLE TO THE M P SS L.RVE
r ... . T OP ON HE GRO OF THE R Ri'PERTYL EGAL F Y DESCRIBED HEREON AND THIS IS
* 4. •. * AND THA r THERE ARE NO D1SCREPANCFS CONFLICTS, SHORT AGES N ARE+ BOUND-
ARY LN1E CONFLICTS EPCRoACHmENTS OVERLAPPING OF .MPROVEI EASE-
• .. • M£NTS UR RIGHTS Ufr WAY, EXCEPT AS SHOWN HF_REON ARO THA SAID PROPERTY
c DONALD W. 60CKMAN HAS AC: ES ro AND FRVM A DEDL.:A TED ROADWAY AS SHOWN HEREON
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AUGUST 19, 1987 A00 J' BLILOWG SETBACK LINES G•FC T ST' ' .•' ••4•
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Official Texas Historical Medallion and Plate without post, for
stucco over brick
Brazos County (Job #23295)
Location: 713 E. 30th Street, Bryan
CAVITT HOUSE*
ATTORNEY WILLIAM R.CAVITT(1849-
1924)PURCHASED A CITY BLOCK HERE
IN 1875,THE YEAR HE MARRIED MARY
MITCHELL,CAVITT BECAME BRAZOS
COUNTY ATTORNEY IN 1878 AND ABOUT
1880 HE AND MARY BUILT A BRICK
ITALIANATE RESIDENCE HERE,CAVITT
LATER SERVED AS A STATE LEGISLATOR
AND ON THE BOARD OF TEXAS A &M
UNIVERSITY,THE CAVITTS MODIFIED THE
HOUSE IN THE 1920s TO REFLECT
CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL REVIVAL
INFLUENCES,THE HOUSE REMAINED
IN THE CAVITT FAMILY UNTIL 1978, **
RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK - 1995 * **
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