"Doors on Broadway Series 1"
Bacon House
1802 Broadway
Today inspiration struck and this photo begins a new project -- "Doors on Broadway." Broadway was one of Lubbock's first streets in the early 1900s. Brick paving was begun in 1920 and Broadway eventually connected downtown with the newly established Texas Technological College in 1923. Warren Bacon built his Colonial Revival brick house in 1916 in the Overton Addition, the first residential addition which was located west of the original Lubbock townsite. A feature of Colonial Revival style is an accentuated entrance with pediments and columns. While this door is not original, it sits in the symmetrical frame with multi-paned sidelights. The Bacon House was occupied by Warren Bacon until his death in 1938 and by family members until the late 1960s. In 1981 the Episcopal Diocese of Northwest Texas acquired the property for its regional headquarters. A stained glass replica of the seal on the door may be glimpsed through the sidelight. Bacon House was added to the National Registry of Historical Places in 1982.
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