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130 North Houston Street, Granbury Texas, 76048

Here is a beautiful two-part building which is a great example of the High Victorian Italianate style. The building constructed of native limestone with a façade of arched windows, fanlights, a simple stone cornice, and a six-bay storefront was built by E.A. Hannaford and J.D. Baker in 1886 and was one of the first stone buildings. The cornice on Hannaford’s side advertised his drug and book business. Hannaford was instrumental in promoting higher education in the Granbury area. The second-floor tenants included the Granbury Graphics, an early newspaper owned and published by Ashley Crockett, a grandson of David Crockett. The iron stairway on the side led to the physician’s offices of Dr. S.T.R. Green who also practiced dentistry until 1933. Granbury native Albert Porter recalls, “That was the first dentist I ever visited. He didn’t deaden your teeth to pull them. He just pulled them.”