Area less than one acre Opened 1902 Added to NRHP 9 April 1998 | NRHP Reference # 98000354 Built by Bailey Mills Architect Jules Leffland | |
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Location 242 N. Chilton St., Goliad, Texas Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Presidio La Bahía, Nuestra Senora del Espiritu S, D H Regan House, Victoria Colored School, Old Nazareth Academy | ||
The Dr. L.W. and Martha E.S. Chilton House at 242 N. Chilton St. in Goliad, Texas, United States, was built in 1902. It was a work of architect Jules Leffland and of building contractor Bailey Mills. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The listing included two contributing buildings and two contributing structures.
It is a two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style house. It was expaned by a kitchen/bathroom addition in 1925. A carriage house is an additional contributing building on the property, and it has a cistern on its rear porch and an underground storm shelter.
A tornado on May 18, 1902 killed 114 people, ten percent of Goliad's population, and injured 225, and destroyed housing including the home of Dr. Chilton and family. The daughter was actually lifted up in the vortex of the tornado but survived. Dr. Chilton opened a temporary hospital and morgue in the courthouse.
The house's construction was begun in June 1902 and it was completed in September 1902. The house stayed in the Chilton family until 1997.