Link–Lee House
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Link-Lee House
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 Link-Lee House
Link-Lee House
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| Location | 3800 Montrose Houston, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°44′16″N 95°23′29″W / 29.73778°N 95.39139°WCoordinates: 29°44′16″N 95°23′29″W / 29.73778°N 95.39139°W |
| Built | 1912 |
| NRHP Reference # | 00000751 |
| RTHL # | 12632 |
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| Added to NRHP | September 11, 2000 |
| Designated RTHL | 2001 |
The Link–Lee House is a large historic home located in Montrose in central Houston, Harris County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is currently serving as the executive office of the University of St. Thomas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas in 2000, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2001.
The Link Lee mansion located at 3800 Montrose Blvd. (on the corner of Montrose Blvd. and West Alabama Street) in Houston is an outstanding example of the early glory days of Texas oil production. The building is a prime example of neoclassical architecture, featuring a pronounced portico, elaborate brickwork and ornate terra cota ornamentation that is consistent with the American neoclassical style. The building has been a Texas Historical Landmark since 2001.
In 1910, John Wiley Link, a wealthy lumberman, financier, lawyer, and former mayor of Orange, Texas saw a great opportunity in Houston, so he moved there and formed the Houston Land Corporation. Then he bought several tracts consisting of 250 acres (1 km²) on the outskirts of the city and immediately set about improving the property, building a main street, now Montrose Boulevard, through the center of it.
At this point, Link began to divide the property into tracts and sold them as part of a strategy to develop the first upscale residential master-planned community in the Houston area, which during the early 1900s had only a total of about 26 miles (42 km) of decent roads. After Montrose and West Alabama were paved in 1911, Link announced that he would soon begin construction of his own home within the confines of the entire block number 41 in the Montrose addition that he purchased from his own corporation. He hired the architectural firm of Sanguinent, Staats, and Barnes to design the structure that the Young Contracting Company completed in 1912 at a cost of $60,000.
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