Belton, TX

(2018年4月訪問)

  1. Bell County Courthouses(ベル郡裁判所): - 101 E. Central Ave.  Bell郡は1850年に発足した時、裁判所は未だ無かったので、地元の鍛冶屋のJohn Danley氏が裁判長でした。鍛冶屋だったので金床が裁判の卓になっていました。その後木造の平屋建ての裁判所が設けられ、2代目の大理石の物は1858年に完成しました。当時$14,000という高額な出費だったので、議員全員がその後の選挙で落選、失職したという曰く付きです。 現存する建物は1884年に着工し、翌年完成しました。
  2. Carnegie Library Building(カーネギー図書館): - 201 N. Main　1904年に完成した図書館は、カーネギー財団の活動の一環で賄われました。Beaux Arts様式の建物は地元のレンガ製造所で焼かれた物が使われています。1975年まで利用され、現在は博物館になっています。
  3. Early Bell County Jail(ベル郡刑務所): - 210 N. Pearl  この町の最初の刑務所は木造二階建てで、Bell郡が制定された三年後の1854年に建てられました。現存している大理石でできた建物になったは1874年になってからで、1884年に市に貸与されました。
  4. Belton Farmers Co-op Gin: 1927年に建設されたこの建物は、現存する数少ない綿油の精製所だったものです。一般的な木造＆トタン屋根の精製所と異なり、煉瓦製の立派なものです。第二次大戦後に廃業し、今では川沿いのレストランになっています。.- 219 South East Street
  5. MK&T Depot(NK&T鉄道Belton駅)
  6. Clark House: - 520 S. Main   1890年代前半に建築されたもので、地元の有力ビジネスマンの息子に結婚祝いとして1895年に贈られました。 The property was sold to Sophie Clark, widow of a Rogers lumberman, in 1899. During World War II, the home was converted to a duplex to help ease the housing shortage at Fort Hood (19 mi.W). Featuring semi-circular shingle bargeboards, the house remained in the Clark family for over eighty years.
  7. Cochran, Blair and Potts Department Store: - 221 E. Central Ave.   Henry Mansfield Cook opened his first store in Centerville, Texas, in 1869, and in 1874 established the firm of H.M. Cook & Company with his son-in-law, Thomas W. Cochran. The firm moved to Buffalo, Texas, in 1876. Their mercantile business stocked dry goods, hardware, drugs, coffins, and included a lumberyard. The firm relocated to Belton in 1883 and opened a store at this site in 1884. Cook's son, Thomas A., joined the firm in 1896 and the business became known as Cook, Cochran, & Company.
    In 1904, three years after the death of H.M. Cook, Cochran's son, Harry T., and his son-in-law, Jesse S. Blair, purchased Thomas Cook's interest in the firm and the business became known as T.W. Cochran and Company. T.W. Cochran died in 1910 and his son-in-law, Arthur H. Potts, became a partner in the company. In 1917 the firm became known as Cochran, Blair, & Potts.
    Though the firm's inventory was destroyed by fire in 1928 the business reopened in 1929 under the management of J.S. Blair, H.T. Cochran, A.H. Potts, H.E. Blair, and Roy Campbell Potts. The corporation was dissolved in 1938 and the business became a partnership owned by members of the Cochran, Blair, and Potts families. The firm, which became solely owned by descendants of Roy Campbell Potts in 1970, was incorporated in 1977.
  8. The Curtis Mansion: - 1902年築のヴィクトリア様式の家。1004 N. Main  W.R. and Ida (Rogers) Miller, rich from good cotton years at turn of the century, built this late Victorian house in 1902. In its architecture, Queen Anne features are mingled with Shingle style then popular in the eastern U.S. The design included fireplaces in every room. Fine materials and detailing inside and out gave elegance to the structure. The later owners, particularly the A. Lon Curtis Family (1914-73), have enhanced and preserved the house.
  9. Ele B. Baggett Home: - 1019 N. Main   Queen Anne調の家。 style home, which features sunbursts in the gables, elaborate corner brackets, and fish-scale shingles, was begun in 1892 by Ele Bright Baggett (1847-1934) and his wife, Mary Carolyn (Butts). The house is across the street from the home of Baggett's father, Silas, one of Belton's founders. After Ele, his brother James Monroe, and their father served in the Civil War, they returned to Bell County  and drove many herds of cattle to Kansas and Montana. Ele had interests in land, cotton gins, and banking. The Baggetts sold the home in 1900.
  10. Fellrath Building: - 126 N East St  J.M. Spencer氏の為に1880-1890年ごろに建てられたものです。 元々は金物屋さんでしたが1914年にJohn Fellrath氏が opened a tin and plumbing shop here and continued as owner of the building until his death in 1961. 地元のレンガを使ったイタリアン様式の商業The Commercial Italianate structure is constructed of native brick and features round arched doors and a corbeled brick cornice at the roofline.
  11. First Baptist Church of Belton: - 506 N. Main
  12. First United Methodist Church of Belton: - 205 N. East St.
  13. Home of Captain A. J. Harris: 1866年に - 1001 Tenth Ave.  State Senator, Confederate veteran, lawyer, teacher at Salado College. Birthplace of Harris' grandson, famous World War II General, Walton Harris Walker.
    Home was built in 1866 of limestone quarried nearby. Mortar contains horsehair.
  14. Muehlhause House: - 620 S. Main St.  ドイツからの移民だったFred Muehlhause, Sr.氏は1906年に町に靴屋を開きます。このIn 1907 he was elected Belton city alderman.
    Prominent Belton builder James M. Scott constructed this residence in 1908 using written specifications provided by Fred Muehlhause. The structure exhibits elements of the Queen Anne architectural style and features a hipped roof with lower cross gables; a wraparound porch; a bay window; hipped dormers facing east, south, and west; and shingled gable ends. Water for domestic purposes was provided by an 18-foot deep spring-fed cistern lined with limestone blocks and located just to the rear of the house.
    Two of the Muehlhauses' seven children eventually lived in homes built by their father on nearby lots along this avenue. This house and its outbuildings, including a carriage house, wash house, and smoke house, remained in the Muehlhause Family until 1992.
  15. Wedemeyer House: - 404 E. 9th St.   1891年に建てられたヴィクトリア様式の家で、元々は学校として使われていました。. Charles H. Wedemeyer (1857-1938), a former teacher and administrator of Baylor University, Crane College, and Waco University, moved here with his wife Mary (Johnson) and family in 1887. They built this home in 1891, adjoining Wedemeyer Academy, where many area leaders were educated. Since 1927, house has been owned by family of Mrs. Alice Law. It was restored in 1973-74 by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Law.
  16. Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Planing Mill: -  6870 S. IH-35  Built in 1912 at the Santa Fe rail yards in Temple, this planing mill was part of a complex of buildings that housed repair facilities for the railroad. Workers at the mill manufactured replacement parts for wooden elements of the Santa Fe's boxcars and early wooden passenger cars. Heavy timbers used in the building's construction were assembled in such a manner to handle the pounding of heavy machinery inside. In use until the late 1940s, the mill was moved to this location in 1989 to save it from demolition. Although no longer sited along the railroad route, it still serves as a reminder of the significant role the Santa Fe played in the industrial development of Bell County. (2001)
  17. Missouri, Kansas & Texas (KATY) Railroad Bridge: - 1881年、The Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroadが町を通らなかったため、支線を引くことを計画しましたが翌年にKATYが到着。当初の橋は1900年にこの橋に付け替えられました。 609 Hubbard Lane  The riveted steel parker truss structure, visible from Taylors Valley Road, is an example of early 20th century engineering and is a reminder of the importance of rail service to the development of Belton.
  18. Elm Grove Baptist Church: - 6383 Elm Grove Road
  19. First Presbyterian Church: - 2500 North Church St.

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