File:House at 2428 Postoffice Galveston.jpg
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English: Two-story wooden residence; rectangular with low-pitched hipped roof; two interior chimneys; S. facade is 2-bay with paired windows and recessed entrance; attached porches on first floor, separate one over door 1 W. facade has centered entrance with 2-story porch with pediment and remnants of bracketed cornice on side; windows are all shuttered; house rests on brick piers.
This is the last house remaining in area that was the famous Postoffice red-light district during the years Galveston was a wide open town -- gambling, prostitution, crooked authorities, any vice you can think of. It is the only surviving building of the strip. Tax records indicate that it was built about 1886 by a Mollie Walters, the madam of this bordello. This house is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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| Author | Jim Evans |
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| current | 22:33, 26 February 2019 | | 3,233 × 1,936 (2.35 MB) | Jim Evans (talk | contribs) | Enhanced and larger image |
| 15:30, 22 October 2012 |  | 2,004 × 1,200 (1.24 MB) | Wiki name~commonswiki (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
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