[220 E. Colorado]

One of 667 photographs in the series: Historic Resources Survey of Palestine, Texas: An Inventory for The City of Palestine available on this site.

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Photograph of the front and side of the "James G. and Elsie Forest Home," a one-story, green, shotgun-style frame house located at 220 E. Colorado in Palestine, Texas. It has some Queen Anne-style accents, including a gable end with imbricated shingles.

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1 photograph : positive, col. ; 35 mm.

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Hardy, Heck, Moore June 1991.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Rescuing Texas History, 2006 and was provided by the Palestine Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 31 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph of the front and side of the "James G. and Elsie Forest Home," a one-story, green, shotgun-style frame house located at 220 E. Colorado in Palestine, Texas. It has some Queen Anne-style accents, including a gable end with imbricated shingles.

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1 photograph : positive, col. ; 35 mm.

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Photograph of 220 E. Colorado taken from the road. Photo was taken for the Historic Resources Survey of Palestine, Texas 1989-1991. This small 1-story frame dwelling survives as an outstanding example of a shotgun, a vernacular house form of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While most local illustrations display hardly any stylistic ornamentation, this property has a gable end with imbricated shingles suggestive of Queen Anne architecture. Rear additions do not detract from the building’s historic character, and the house retains its integrity to a high degree. Though this house appears to date to the early 1900s, city directory research was only able to trace its ownership history to the mid-1920s, when it was owned and occupied by James G. and Elsie Forest. Mr. Forest was an employee of County Road. By 1935 the house was occupied by John W. Broughton, an employee of Missouri Pacific, and his wife Leachie. Early Gilmore, a mechanic, and his wife Evalna lived here in the early 1940s.

Taken from: Historic Resources Survey of Palestine, Texas: An Inventory for The City of Palestine, Volume IV, Color Slides, June 1991

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Rescuing Texas History is a project that aims to digitize at-risk photographs, maps, artwork, and more. Funding was provided by the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas.

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Hardy, Heck, Moore. [220 E. Colorado], photograph, June 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10393/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.

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