26/06/2024
I’ve never seen anything like this before!
Want to know two pretty neat things about this historic house built in 1851?
1. The roof has a water reservoir which is concealed by the broad horizontal .
2. The house is constructed entirely of unreinforced cast-in-place (limecrete).
VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
Colonel Joshua Young House (Sebastopol House)
704 Mill Avenue
Seguin, Guadalupe County, TX
Marvin Eickenroht, Photographer March 1, 1934.
LEARN MORE
See the rest of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation of the Colonel Joshua Young House in The Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0387/
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