Goforth-Harris House

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Marker No: 14892

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

National Register of Historic Places

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 29°53′06″N 97°56′40″W

Marker Text: ​T.J. Goforth, who founded a town with his name in Hays County, built this house c. 1905. Eight years later, he sold the house to Thomas Green Harris, first president of Texas State University and later president of San Marcos Academy. Harris was a mathematics teacher and administrator for more than forty years in Georgia and Texas. The house has been a single-family residence, apartments, and a sorority house. The Goforth-Harris House shows characteristic Victorian era features. A curved double gallery fills the space between the main block and the ell. Distinctive details include projecting bays brick chimneys, turned posts, fish scale shingles, pendants, and jigsawn brackets in the gable ends. (2008)

Location: 401 Comanche Street, San Marcos