A History of Ashton Villa
978-0-87611-112-3 Paperback
5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in
68 pp. 20 b&w illus. Map
Pub Date: 06/01/1991
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This volume tells the story of the stately Italianate Galveston mansion known as Ashton Villa. Built in 1859, Ashton Villa stood out in antebellum Galveston for its extensive use of new materials: brick and cast iron. It has weathered many a storm, including the Great Hurricane of 1900, when floodwaters invaded its first floor. Now as a historic house museum, Ashton Villa speaks eloquently about the lives and aspirations of an upper-class Texas family in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
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