The farmer's house

Texas · United States · School

A farmer built it as his dream house. The fraternity bought it in the late eighties, and there is a second structure standing behind it.

This house at Beaumont, Texas was built by a farmer, and local account says it was his dream house.

What happened to it after he died is told several ways, and none of it is documented.

A fraternity bought it in the late 1980s. It sits on old farmland, with the main house at the front and a large structure standing behind it.

A man who builds his own dream house and then dies is one of the recurring figures in this archive, and it is easy to see why. Building a house is the largest single act of intention most people ever perform, and a building put up to somebody's own specification carries their decisions in every room.

Beaumont sat at the centre of the Texas oil boom after the Spindletop gusher of 1901, which turned farmland here into something else entirely within a year.

The house is private student housing.

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Where is The farmer's house located?

The farmer's house is in Texas, United States.