1814 (aka 1816) Lubbock St. – Houston TX (built 1885; demolished September 2005)

 

This Queen Anne style home was built by Urbain Valentine who was the son of Peter Valentine, a valet of William Marsh Rice. Urbain was a machinist and millworker for the Houston and Texas Central Railway and later a janitor at the court house; he moved from the Lubbock house around 1915 (his ex-wife and children remained).

 

Houston Chronicle articles about the purchase of the house and its demolition:
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Houston-preservationists-fight-losing-battle-1483486.php

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Old-Sixth-Ward-loses-a-piece-of-its-history-1916355.php