| Marker Number |
6319 |
| Atlas Number |
5355006319 |
| Marker Title |
Simon Gugenheim House |
| Index Entry |
Gugenheim, Simon, House |
| Address |
1513 N Chaparral, Heritage Park |
| City |
Corpus Christi |
| County |
Nueces |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
658097 |
| UTM Northing |
3076746 |
| Subject Codes |
houses, residential buildings; Business topics, general; markets, merchantiles |
| Marker Year |
1976 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
Yes |
| Marker Location |
Heritage Park, 1513 North Chaparral, Corpus Christi |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
27" x 42" |
| Marker Text |
This structure was built at 1101 North Chaparral for Simon and Lila Belle (Soloman) Gugenheim. Simon Gugenheim (1861-1942) was a native Texan who came to Corpus Christi in 1882 with forty dollars in his pocket and remained to become wealthy. He and a friend formed the Gugenheim and Cohn Drygoods Co. In 1891, the year of his marriage, he acquired a great deal of property when he helped rescue the city's economy during a recession in 1896, and later was a successful investor in the petroleum industry. The Gugenheims had this house built about 1900. They moved into a modest apartment and sold their home in 1924. Among their philanthropies was a gift of four lots on South Broadway as the site for a YMCA building, where Gugenheim's portrait was hung. Their Victorian house of the early 1900s was moved to its present site during a period of city growth. The turret on this house survived all others in the domestic architecture of the city. The builder adorned the house with bay windows; a lunette in the front pediment; and gables faced with shingles; ornamenting the porches with columns, brackets, and banisters, and with cornices displaying wooden beads, spindles, lattices, and other Victorian gingerbread. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1976 |
