Reichardt-Schuerenburg House, 411 West Alamo Street, Brenham, Washington County, TX

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry
Significance: Built in 1888, the Reichardt-Schuerenberg House in Brenham, Texas is a large one-story house based on a five-bay center-hall design with a prominent front porch and double entry doors. The house is of wood frame construction with clapboard siding and features such rich Victorian era detailing as Italianate porch columns and pilasters, a molded cornice with brackets and an elaborately carved porch railing. Also notable are its interiors, with fifteen foot ceilings and the original wallpaper applied in a stunning mosaic design on the ceilings of the three front parlors...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N211
Survey number: HABS TX-3413
Building/structure dates: 1888 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work