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1812 Ave. O, c. 1900 with
alterations 1814 Ave. J, c. 1910 with alterations 2104 Ave. L, c. 1910 (pictured) 2111 Ave. L, c. 1920 with alterations 1921 5th, 1939 with alterations |
Historic photographs of the city and a few existing homes show that the most common houses in early Lubbock were hall-and-parlor, front-gabled, and front-gabled and wing Folk house forms. Steep roofs, exterior walls surfaced with box and strip vertical wood boards, and simple detailing were typical of these structures. Later, narrow horizontal wood siding became common both in new construction and as a replacement for deteriorated box and strip surfaces. As new styles became popular, folk houses of all types were embellished with ornaments associated with the Queen Anne, Prairie, Bungalow, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, or Colonial Revival styles, but the basic Folk form remained.
Hall-and-parlor or two-room houses are one- or two-story side gabled structures, one room deep and two rooms in width, sometimes with a narrow hall between the rooms reminiscent of the central breezeway found in a dog-trot house. These may have front porches and variously shaped rear additions with roofs of a lower pitch.
More easily adapted to narrow urban lots, front-gabled or shotgun houses were several rooms deep and one room wide-essentially a hall-and-parlor house turned sideways. Most local examples of this type are one-story in height with front porches, although two-story forms were common in other areas of the country.
A variation of the front-gable house was the addition of a side-gabled wing to a front-gabled plan for more space and flexibility. These"L" shaped front-gable and wing houses may be either one or two stories in height, but shed or hipped roofed porches at the intersection of the two wings are a common feature.
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1812 Ave. O, c. 1900 with
alterations 1814 Ave. J, c. 1910 with alterations 2104 Ave. L, c. 1910 (pictured) 2111 Ave. L, c. 1920 with alterations 1921 5th, 1939 with alterations |
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1919 Ave. P, c. 1910 with
alterations 1916 Ave. L, c. 1910 1910 Ave. P, c. 1910 2106 Ave. L, c. 1910 (pictured) 1806 Ave. B, 1928 with alterations 1705 Ave. B, 1928 with alterations 3012 20th, c. 1929 with alterations & additions 610 Ave. B, 1931 615 Ave. B, 1940 |
2007 5th, c. 1910
1920 16th, c. 1925 with alterations
2415 22nd Place (moved to site in 1945), c. 1930
1914 15th (moved from 1406 Ave. T in 1983), 1936 with alterations
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1920 16th St., c. 1925 with alterations |
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2007 5th St., c. 1910 |
By the turn of the twentieth century, the fledgling city had several established church congregations, a public school, a newspaper, two doctors, two lawyers, and a handfull of shops and stores serving 293 county inhabitants. The population and economy of Lubbock grew more rapidly when newly immigrating farmers purchased the last of the IOA Ranch lands in the early years of the 1900's. Cotton began to replace diversified agriculture as the major crop in the South Plains region.
Along with economic growth came larger, more substantial housing and business. The growing middle-class built larger, more sophisticated folk houses instead of the simpler, less flexible one room wide or deep houses. Massed plan houses, either one- or two-stories in height, are a deeper version of the two-room house made possible by improved roof framing techniques capable of spanning larger spaces. Consequently, this housing type with the application of assorted stylistic details has maintained its popularity to the present day. While early examples had full-width front porches, after the 1930's most had only small entry porches or none at all. These houses vary in roof pitch and the size and position of the porch, and may be wider than they are deep with side-gabled roofs or nearly square in plan with hipped roofs - the latter called Pyramidal Roofed houses. Two-story Pyramidal Roofed houses are also known as Four Square houses and several of these may be found in the central areas of the city.
Side-Gabled
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2406 9th, c. 1900 2011 10th, c. 1910 2017 42nd, c. 1925 with alterations 2005 Ave. L, c. 1930 1907 Ave. T, c. 1930 (pictured) 2222 6th, c. 1940 2403 6th, 1944 |
Pyramidal Roofed
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1515 30th (moved to site c.
1942), 1909 with alterations 2007 10th, c. 1910 2411 22nd Place (moved to site in 1945), c. 1920 with alterations 2020 Main, 1924 2302 15th, 1925 Mast-White House, 2301 Broadway (moved from 2219 13th in 1981), 1925 with alterations; RTHL & LHL (pictured) 2116 15th, 1926 1919 8th, 1928-1929 2306 21st, c. 1930 2114 15th, 1931 1502 15th, 1937 with alterations 2223 15th, 1937 2024 6th, 1941 |
