The Second Empire-styled beauty of John Bremond House, built by contractor George Fiegel in 1886, at 700 Guadalupe Street between 6th and 7th Street shapes the centrepiece of the Bremond Block Historic District, Downtown Austin (Texas).
Original owner John Bremond Jr, hence the name, spared no expense and a hefty $49000 towards the building of his mansion that contains no less than five bedrooms while it displays fine plaster archways carved black-walnut woodwork on the interior as well as topped with a mansard roof and wrapped with wrought-iron balconies around.
The historic district is a Victorian upper-class patch that primarily takes in eleven historic houses, constructed between 1854 and 1910, lying within a square block bounded by West Seventh, West Eighth, Guadalupe and San Antonio Streets.
Six of those houses were built or expanded as residences for members of the families of prominent brothers John and Eugene Bremond whilst the district further extends over several houses located on the west side of San Antonio Street and the south side of West Seventh Street.
Nowadays, the John and Pierre Bremond houses are owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association with the former forming the headquarters thereof
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