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Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Notsuoh Photography.

This is a photo of the historic Nash House in the Westmoreland Historic District in The Montrose.

The following information is from a brochure from The Westmoreland Civic Association.

215 Westmoreland (1907). The Nash house is a grand Colonial Revival house that resembles the Connecticut State Building designed for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. The house, designed by architect H.C. Cooke, is the most ambitious example of Colonial Revival construction remaining in Westmoreland.

This house was built as a town house for the family of William Nash, a rancher and farmer from Brazoria County. The Nashes divided their time between this house and the ranch until Nash died in 1931. Frank Cullinan, President and Manager of Operations of Producer Oil Company (later Texaco) rented the house in 1917 during World War I. William P. Hobby rented the house in 1926. Hobby was Texas Governor from 1917-1921. Judge Roy Hofheinz, developer of the Astrodome, later owned the house.

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