• Does this say 1900 Franklin? - glennaa
  • Coke.:] - Arnold Dude
  • Pepsi Cola! - Jarl van Hoother
  • Wonder if this house was ever painted? - fridaysocials4
  • Paint at that time contained lead, some people thought it was a bad idea to paint their houses with lead based paint. Also the County tax accessor would have valued the house at a higher rate. - Mitchell Ryan Smith

House, Houston, Texas (LOC)

Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer.

House, Houston, Texas

1943 May

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
 For similar photo by Vachon in b&w, see LC-USW3-027920-D "Houston, Tex. Old house and fruit stand."
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 World War, 1939-1945
Houses
Carts & wagons
United States--Texas--Houston

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-59 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35441
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00061

Call Number: LC-USW36-838

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    wa-nita, uhoh over, friendly mutton chops, robert_rex_jackson, and 700 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. bonsaibutterfly [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)

    What a crazy looking house! So cool.

  3. mystik17_1998 (60 months ago | reply)

    Plantation meets gothic.... interesting combination for a house

  4. nate'sgirl (60 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called historic porch gingerbread & scrollwork, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  5. My Symbiosis [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)

    What a fantastic place! I wonder how long it stood there, and who owned it. The gingerbread trim with the laundry hanging about, and the boarded up window upstairs, is an interesting combination visually and says much about their lives.

  6. jaojao1 (59 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful detail in this photo.

  7. fotos-de-alejandra [deleted] (59 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  8. neshachan (59 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Houses with Towers, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group, please. :)

  9. philipbunker (59 months ago | reply)

    Love those double wrap-around porches! It's a bit strange that most contemporary homes do not have porches - wonder why they've been out of style for so long...perhaps because so few people walk on sidewalks anymore.

  10. neshachan (59 months ago | reply)

    Well, it's mostly, I think, because we have air conditioning now and don't need porches to sit on to cool off.

  11. celticstoneman (59 months ago | reply)

    I kind of remember my Gran calling them "veranda's" and in hot evenings they would put mattresses on the upper's and sleep out of doors.

  12. glennaa (59 months ago | reply)

    If I'm reading the curb street sign correct, it's the 1900 block of Franklin, which would put it just north of where Minute Maid Park is now. I didn't realize how rural that area still was in the 1940s, as it would be considered part of downtown now.

  13. bartenational (59 months ago | reply)

    wow that is an awesome slice of the past

  14. bubsmom2008 (59 months ago | reply)

    It's like the house in The Magnificent Ambersons! Can't you just imagine what a mansion this used to be, in its own estate? then fortunes of the owners diminished, they sold off bits of property ...people built next door - ...little houses...then the family died out or fled...and the house is now a wreck. But you can still tell what a gorgeous and expensive house it once was. "Every flower fades"

  15. ~Terrie K ~ (59 months ago | reply)

    Wow, this is wonderful, so much detail and history, I could stare at it for an hour and keep finding new things.

    glennaa I can definitely make out the 1900 and it looks like it could be Franklin.
    --
    Seen in your 1930s-40s in Color set. (?)

  16. glennaa (59 months ago | reply)

    Terrie K , after looking at the B&W photo referenced in the description, it's definitely the 1900 block of Franklin, and it doesn't look so rural - the cross street is pretty busy.

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    Seen in my recent comments. (?)

  17. annick vanderschelden (59 months ago | reply)

    What an architecture....
    So many details...

  18. Debbie(Woodlands Texas) (59 months ago | reply)

    Great old photo

  19. TyGrr! (57 months ago | reply)

    Love the hanging clotheslines... wow... the color really makes me feel as if I'm there...

  20. antonia333 (57 months ago | reply)

    Such a great picture!

  21. lanisvintage (57 months ago | reply)

    Very interesting house...I wonder if it is still there?

  22. lone locust (56 months ago | reply)

    I'm 90% certain this is a house on Heights Blvd which is still standing, and currently very well-maintained. It's been 2 years since I have lived there and thus could go check the details.

  23. glennaa (56 months ago | reply)

    1900 Franklin would be near where Minute Maid park is now.

    Actually, if you go to Google Maps and look up 1900 Franklin, Houston Tx, you can get a street view of what the area looks like now. Not much there.

    --
    Seen in my recent comments. (?)

  24. rss_escobar (56 months ago | reply)

    Ahhh, what a simpler time. I wonder what was eventually built in it's place and if that man could have ever foreseen Houston becoming what it is today- modern chaos! I would love to know what he thinks about the toll roads and hours upon hours of traffic.

  25. trojjer (54 months ago | reply)

    Funny how the old Pepsi Co. logo looks a lot like the Coca Cola one with regards to the handwriting, despite the trademark... And the Coke one's never changed.

  26. sarah nieman. (52 months ago | reply)

    I love this.
    I dont know why,
    but I do.

  27. Elizabeth Pellette (51 months ago | reply)

    very cool.

  28. crabigail* (51 months ago | reply)

    This is a veeeery cool house!

  29. Nap Knits (51 months ago | reply)

    This is what my dreams look like

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  31. love-charlie (50 months ago | reply)

    WOW! Beautiful old photogrpah, this is why I love photography, it gives you an idea or a view of life that you would never experience otherwise. What an amazing old house, beautiful!

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called They Dont Make Them Like They Used To, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  32. >LOR< (50 months ago | reply)

    I'd like to live in that house

  33. : reemirroridiculous : (50 months ago | reply)

    i concur. beautiful.

  34. MaWa | BoFaRaH (49 months ago | reply)

    very cool.
    0000

  35. bushitheck (49 months ago | reply)

    Excellent cool photograpy,

    :D

    good vibrations

  36. xkrodx (49 months ago | reply)

    That is such a beautiful house. I wonder if the porch goes all the way around the house, or is just the front and and the sides. I would like to live in a house like that. I love the idea of a porch being all the way around a house and this house captures that idea beautifully.

  37. fridaysocials4 (49 months ago | reply)

    This house is beautiful. I wonder if it was ever painted and fallen into disrepair.

  38. jutakyo (48 months ago | reply)

    nice house :) .

  39. cltan47 [deleted] (48 months ago | reply)

    great shot

  40. firefighterstringer (48 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Houses of The United States, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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    So lovely

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  42. Paul McRae (Delta Niner) (47 months ago | reply)

    Sadly Houston doesn't really care about history. So many places like this were torn down in the name of so called progress.

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  45. Jofel Tobias (46 months ago | reply)

    I love the structure here! Nice photo! ;-)

  46. onagus (46 months ago | reply)

    Such an awkward building, but still a beauty.

  47. digitalambitions/ Valerie Hogg (46 months ago | reply)

    beautiful

  48. Fatima Teresa (46 months ago | reply)

    hola la foto esta muy realisada el color perfecto y el fondo muy adecuado te felicito

  49. bridgetolio (46 months ago | reply)

    this is cooooolllll

  50. cris restan (46 months ago | reply)

    WOW...

  51. laura va - (45 months ago | reply)

    genial !!!

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