Description: 2-story; wood frame with wide lapped siding; brick foundation; 3-bay facade, massed plan; gable roofs with hip roofs on 1-story additions; plain entablature at porch roof, slender wood porch supports; windows multipaned wood double-hung with hood mold at 1st floor; classical pedimented entry with wood panel door and side lights; octagonal breakfast bay at north wing; attached porte cochere and garage or servants quarters; brick chimneys at north and south of main house block with gabled chimney caps.
Significance: Designed by the Lufkin architect Shirley Simon, this house was built in 1929 for H. W. Whited. Whited managed the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company and was responsible for the firm being able to process more lumber by the board foot than any other mill of comparable size in the Southwest.
711 N. Mound 1986 Survey Information
Address: 711 N. Mound
Date: 1929
Block: 40
Lot: 16
Condition: Very good; later one-story additions in similar style
Description: 2-story; wood frame with wide lapped siding; brick foundation; 3-bay facade, massed plan; gable roofs with hip roofs on 1-story additions; plain entablature, wood shingles; exaggerated proportions for the entablature at porch roof, slender wood porch supports; windows multi-paned wood double-hung with hood mold at 1st floor; classical pedimented entry with wood panel door & side lights; octagonal breakfast bay at north wing; attached porte cochere garage or servants quarters; brick chimneys at north and south of main house block with gabled chimney caps.
Significance: Simons also designed the Nacogdoches High School Auditorium and Gym in Washington Square. He lived in Lufkin during the teens and 20s.
