Harrison House National Register Nomination (Redacted)

The Harrison House sits at the back of what is now the Forest Creek Subdivision and is somewhat remote as it sits in the center of the last remaining 12 acres of the original farm. The property is overgrown with dense underbrush and trees. The Olympia Hills Golf Course is located directly adjacent to the rear of the property. The house faces to the east and is surrounded by live oaks. A dirt road that parallels the Cibolo Creek runs along the north side of the property and passes directly beside the house. This road dating back to 1852 was the original private road belonging to the house that ran
from the Old Austin Road at its juncture with the creek up to the house. The house is a seven-bay, hipped roof frame dwelling with a seven-bay shed roof porch stretched across the entire front (east) façade (Photo 1). The center portion consisting of three bays, is a whitewashed stone building dating to 1852. Wood frame additions with wood novelty siding (c.1905) run the full length of the north and south walls of the original stone building, and are finished on the west side with gabled ends nearly flush with the original west wall. A shed-roof addition is attached to the back half of the building’s south addition. All sections of the house rest on pier and beam foundations of cedar posts on limestone blocks. Original roofing material was probably cedar shake shingles but it has been replaced over the years with corrugated metal.  Read More