Hammond House, 604 Elm Street, Calvert, Robertson County, TX

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
Significance: The Hammond House was designed as the Robertson County Courthouse by St. Louis architect W. P. Ingraham in 1875, and was completed in July of 1879. The county seat, however, was moved to Franklin, Texas in December of that same year and it never saw use as a courthouse. The county sheriff and his family lived in Ingraham Castle, as it was then known, until the spring of 1881, when it was sold to a Mr. A. Faulkner. In 1885, R. A. Brown purchased the building and converted it into a residence. It was sold again in 1909, to Mrs. Fannie Lee Hammond, and it remained in the Hammond family until it was sold to the Robertson County Historical Commission in 1967 by the Norton family, heirs of Fannie Lee Hammond...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-201
Survey number: HABS TX-3337
Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction