Moore-Flack House
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Marker No: 12243
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Texas Historic Landmark
Geographic: 30.272802,-97.748329
Location: 901 Rio Grande Street, Austin
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Marker Text: Local contractor Charles Funk built this house for John M. and Estelle Moore in 1887 at a cost of $2,000. At that time John M. Moore (1853-1902), a former Texas Legislator and district attorney, was secretary of state for governor Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross. Laura A.E. (Metz) Flack (1836-1933) purchased the house in 1901 and in the 1920s modified the original Victorian design with the addition of a two-story neo-classical revival porch. A prominent Austin businesswoman who owned a number of buildings on Congress Avenue, Flack lived here with her family until her death. The house remained in her family for another forty years. (1984)
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