315 N. Church Photographs
315 N. Church Summer 2011 Survey
Sarah Richardson, a daughter of one of Rusk county's leading families, married Edward E. Richardson on June 3, 1968. After her husband's death Richardson returned to her parents--following them to Nacogdoches in 1893. In 1897, Sarah Richardson's brother, Charles Perkins, built this home for his sister.Sarah Richardson played a leading role in Nacogdoches society until her death in 1922. Her obituary in The Redland Herald notes Richardson as "one of the city's most notable characters." In later life Richardson, who never remarried, followed the male practice of referring to herself by her first two initials, in this case S. A. Richardson. Such references were unusual for a woman of her time.
According to Sarah K. Jackson's book Karle Wilson Baker - Texas Woman of Letters, the SFA anthem was first sung at the Sarah Richardson house in 1924. In 1924, SFA acquired a grand piano. With the schools auditorium unfinished Ida Pritchett, the head of the school's music program, placed the piano in the Sarah Richardson House. In early 1924, Karle Wilson Baker, a nominee for the 1924 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a Professor of English at SFA, gathered with Pritchett and others to brainstorm an anthem for the new college. "The Piney Woods Hymn," one of Baker's poems and subsequently the SFA school song, was first set to music during this meeting.
Links:| Sarah Richardson Obit - Redland Herald | Obits_2.pdf |
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Sarah Richardson Obit- Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel |
Obits_3.pdf |
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SFA Faculty Photo Showing Prichett and Baker |
http://digital.sfasu.edu/u?/EastTexRC,11896 |
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SFA School Song |
http://www.sfasu.edu/studentaffairs/93.asp |
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1946 Sanborn Company Map |
See SFA ETRC |
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1929 Sanborn Company Map |
See SFA ETRC |
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1922 Sanborn Company Map- Sheet 6 |
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/m-o/txu-sanborn-nacogdoches-1922-6.jpg |
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1912 Sanborn Company Map- Sheet 4 |
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/m-o/txu-sanborn-nacogdoches-1912-04.jpg |
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1906 Sanborn Company Map- Sheet 7 |
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/m-o/txu-sanborn-nacogdoches-1906-7.jpg |
315 N. Church 1990 National Register Information
- Address: 315 N. Church
- Date: 1897/1915
- Category: Contributing
- Block: 3
- Lot: 5
- Description: 1-1/2 story; wood frame construction with bull-nosed siding; brick foundation; rectangular plan with projecting chamfered bays on north and south and projecting entry on east; intersecting hip-and-gable roofs with composition shingles, hipped dormers and second story balcony over entry; gallery porch on three sides with boxed wood columns and simple wood railing, wood floor, beaded ceiling; plain entablature; windows 1/1 wood double hung with wood trim string course above; upper story windows fixed with diamond and prism shaped obscured glass; entry door wood paneled with large glass light and side lights; interior brick chimneys on north and south; 2-car garage at rear, wood frame with gable roof; large oak trees on Church Street side.
- Significance: Charles Perkins, using designs drawn up by Dietrich Rulfs, built this house for Mrs. Sarah Richardson in 1897. The home originally had two stories, rounded columns, and galleries covered with Victorian tracery. William U. Perkins occupied the premises from 1900 to 1910. When the second story burned in 1920, the owner, C. E. Richardson, had the entire front "gingerbread" gallery removed and squared its columns. Most likely architectural plans from Dietrich Rulfs were used to redesign this house due to the fact that the house resembles other structures in the neighborhood designed by him. In 1944 the house was conveyed by the Richardson family to the W. T. Haralson family.
315 N. Church 1986 Survey Information
- Address: 315 N. Church
- Name: Mrs. Sarah Richardson House
- Date: 1897, 1915
- Block: 3
- Lot: 5
- Condition: Good; rebuilt as 1-story in 1915
- Description: 1-1/2 story; wood frame construction with bull-nosed siding; brick foundation; rectangular plan with projecting chamfered bays on north and south and projecting entry on east; intersecting hip-and-gable roofs with composition shingles, hipped dormers and second story balcony over entry; gallery porch on three sides with boxed wood columns and simple wood railing, wood floor, beaded ceiling, plain entablature; windows 1/1 wood double-hung with wood trim string course above; upper story windows fixed with diamond and prism-shaped obscured glass; entry door wood paneled with large glass light and side lights; interior brick chimneys on north and south; 2-car garage at rear, wood frame with gable roof; large oak trees on Church Street side.
- Significance: Built as ornate 2-story; fire in 1915 destroyed Eastlake style porches, and second floor.