Thanks to Gary Helm Darden for these photographs. He wrote:
(2) torn pic of 410 Austin St, from an old photo album of my grandmother’s, and I can see that the original Greek Revival columns circa 1838 –– documented in Houston book paragraphs I sent –– were removed when the house was Victorianized in the Italianate style by Col. John Andrews after the Civil War. According to my grandmother who visited the house frequently until “Jennie” Andrews Flewellen died in 1923, the house had a run-through central hall with stairs, a double parlor to the left, a music room to the front right with bay window (with portraits of Lee & Jackson), and a long dining room behind that followed by the kitchen-servant wing. The bedrooms were upstairs and the bedroom furniture from this house used as children by “Bessie” Clark Helm and “Nannie” Clark Flewellen Howard ended up, respectively, with “Gene” Helm Ince and “Gene” Howard Hunt. I have the walnut Italianate bedroom furniture from my grandmother and “Gene” Hunt had her mother’s 4-poster bed in her house in Austin. It was in this house that Gene Helm and Gene Hunt played together as children each summer and over the holidays.
3) photo of upper porch at 410 Austin St with Elizabeth “Bessie” Clark & her fiancé Thomas Alonzo Helm around 1908? They both had a thick mop of hair which my grandmother had all the way to age 97!
