c. 1908 Queen Anne in Waco, TX

8/17/22 5 Comments

Posted on OHD: 8/17/22. Last OHD Update: 9/5/22.
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1120 N 4th St, Waco, TX 76707

Now is the moment you've been waiting for, you have the chance to restore this house back to the majestic beauty it once was. Home is part of the Texas Historical Commission and remains an architectural landmark of Waco's history. Beautiful wood trim around the windows and doors, original hardwood floors throughout and high ceilings. Attic could easily be converted into office space, bedroom, media room or whatever your families needs are. Within walking distance to all that downtown offers, restaurants, Magnolia Silos, Cameron Park, Cameron Park Zoo and the Brazos River. Additional lot may be also purchased, call for details.

3 Bed ∙ 1.5 Bath ∙ 2,560 Sq Ft ∙ 0.38 Ac.

Was Listed With

Synthia Slaughter
Texas Premier Realty
(210) 844-8683

Reference Links

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TX Historical Markers (Better Exterior Photo)

“ Samuel Johan Forsgard (d. 1912) came to Texas from Sweden in 1855. Two years later, he married Mary C. Johnson (or Jonsson) (d. 1897) and moved to Waco. Their son, Edward Ferdinant “Fuzzy” (1870-1941), married Anna Marie Weaver (1877-1963), and he and his father designed this home, which was built by Swedish carpenters and completed in 1908.

Samuel lived in a small house built behind the larger home, where Edward and Anna raised five daughters and one son, who like his father and grandfather before him, was an expert marksman. Samuel and Edward were both Special Texas Rangers, and Edward held the 1908 world title in trapshooting. He and his father were also inventors. Anna, also known as Annie, or “Queenie” to the doctors she assisted, dedicated her life to sharing, giving food and drink to many at the back door. A log in the back yard served as a table for the travelers and as a storytelling venue for the Forsgard men.

In addition to Samuel’s house, the Forsgard’s lot included a hull house, where the hulls from the family’s cotton farm were dumped for their many animals, including cows, horses, dogs, pigs, chickens, pigeons and deer. Two barns housed the feed and the animals, as well as the family’s surrey, or buggy. Family servants lived in a small house, once a part of the barn.

The main house is a modified ell, designed in the Queen-Anne style with Classical columns and decorative shingling at the roof gable end. The porch, modified in 1930, features a low, solid wall, reportedly added to hide the legs of women and girls as they sat on the porch. Today, the house remains an architectural landmark of Waco’s history.”

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