Christmas Tour of Alpine Homes
201 W. Sul Ross Avenue
In June of 1890 General R. M. Gano, Civil War Veteran and a long-time minister of the Christian Church, came to Alpine. [Read Full History....]
301 North Ninth Street
The first owner of the large two-story house on the corner of Sul Ross Avenue and 9th Street was Dock William Gourley. Construction of the Gourley home was begun in 1895 on land purchased the previous year. [Read Full History....]
403 North Eighth Street
This red brick home with arched brick window and door headers, shingled gabled ends, and railed porch is an example of a simplified Queen Anne cottage. [Read Full History....]
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601 South Harrison Street
This old adobe house, with the long, covered front porch, dates back to the early 1900’s. The earliest known residents were the Apolinar “Polo” Garcia family. [Read Full History....]
709 East Sul Ross Avenue
This historic grey stucco house was originally the home of newlyweds George W. and Maude Hancock Baines, who were married on December 31, 1908. It is purported to have been a wedding gift.
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1405 North Fifth Street
This lovely Cape Cod cottage was built in 1927 for Mr. and Mrs. Virgil E. Miller and their baby daughter, Charlotte Jean. It is constructed of cypress wood and was considered to be a very modern style for that time period. [Read Full History....]
209 Holland Avenue
At the beginning of the 1900's, rancher and businessman John R. Holland came to the conclusion that there was no respectable hotel in Alpine to meet the needs of the people. In 1912, he built the Holland Hotel. [Read Full History....]
605 East Avenue B
In 1929, Ernest Mollison became the manager of Alpine's premier "picture show", the Granada Theater. He and his family lived in this home from at least 1929 until 1943.
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601 West Sul Ross Avenue
This early ranch style home was built in 1911 on land that area cattleman, C. F. Kimball had purchased from Dubois and Wentworth a year earlier.
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507 North Cockrell Street
This Spanish style stucco home on North Cockrell was built in 1928 for A. Vick and Isabel Winter and their two sons. [Read Full History....]
505 North Third Street
Tax records show that the land on which the house was built was first owned by Thomas Murphy, one of Alpine's founders. [Read Full History....]
608 West Sul Ross Avenue
The first occupants of this simple modified Tudor-style home were the R.A. "Bob" McMurry family. Pictures from as early as 1928 are evidence of their ownership. [Read Full History....]
406 South Cockrell Street
This house is on the west end of Pueblo Nuevo, an area largely settled by former Terlingua residents displaced when the mine closed during World War II.
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100 West Murphy Street
The building was originally built as a furniture store sometime after the turn of the century.
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102 West Murphy Street
Originally constructed as a residence, Tomas Valadez purchased the building ca. 1937 and opened the Solo Café.
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108 East Avenue F
This house was built sometime before 1900 and appears in a 1902 photo with a white stucco exterior at a time when few south side houses had stucco exteriors. [Read full History....]
209 South Sixth Street
This house was originally built of adobe ca. 1900 and can be seen in a 1902 photo where it then faced onto F Street. It was the Mexican Methodist Church from
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310 East Sul Ross Avenue
Mr. Shirley Scales and his wife Lettie, who came to Alpine in 1911, purchased this house prior to 1920 and owned it for many years. [Read Full History....]
301 North Third Street
This house was purchased by T. Franklin Skevington in the late 1920s. Skevington owned the Highway Service Garage and was the Alpine City Secretary in the late 1920s. [Read Full History....]