File:Hammond House, 604 Elm Street, Calvert, Robertson County, TX HABS TEX,198-CALV,4- (sheet 8 of 11).tif

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HABS TEX,198-CALV,4- (sheet 8 of 11) - Hammond House, 604 Elm Street, Calvert, Robertson County, TX
Title
HABS TEX,198-CALV,4- (sheet 8 of 11) - Hammond House, 604 Elm Street, Calvert, Robertson County, TX
Description
Ingraham, W P; Robertson County Historical Commission; Floth, Lauri; Kenny, Paninee; Ray, Andrew; Yiu, Sukking; Thomas, Lyn; Klein, Kate Gibbons; Marshall, Michael; Tandikul, Chinasak; Thomas, Bobby; Wilson, Cathy; Woodcock, David G, faculty sponsor; Texas AandM University, Department of Architecture, sponsor
Depicted place Texas; Robertson County; Calvert
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,198-CALV,4- (sheet 8 of 11)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • 1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: The Hammond House was designed as the Robertson County Courthouse by St. Louis architect W. P. Ingraham in 1875, and was completed in July of 1879. The county seat, however, was moved to Franklin, Texas in December of that same year and it never saw use as a courthouse. The county sheriff and his family lived in Ingraham Castle, as it was then known, until the spring of 1881, when it was sold to a Mr. A. Faulkner. In 1885, R. A. Brown purchased the building and converted it into a residence. It was sold again in 1909, to Mrs. Fannie Lee Hammond, and it remained in the Hammond family until it was sold to the Robertson County Historical Commission in 1967 by the Norton family, heirs of Fannie Lee Hammond...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-201
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3337
  • Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0592.sheet.00008a
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