Navigating Millard's Crossing School Tours
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2. The Watkins House (1895) - This home was built by Mrs. Thomas’s maternal grandfather. The house reflects the common practice of modifying a much plainer existing house. This one began as a standard rectangular farmhouse with a breezeway through the middle. By adding a bay window parlor and front porch with gingerbread, it was “victorianized” into a more stylish home. It has a well on the back porch, common in this area because of the high water table; the Carrizo-Wilcox Sand Aquifer, which can be tapped into from ten to twenty-five feet in most places, made it possible for the water source to be incorporated into the house plan.
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