DUANE
Duane's take
Here's my telling of what the official marker has to say about the Bacon Home in Lubbock County. Now settle in, because sometimes the most enduring stories get built one brick at a time. The year is 1916, and Warren A.
Bacon has decided that if you're going to plant your flag in Lubbock — really plant it — you do it in brick. Two stories of it. Warren was a prominent business and civic leader in this town, the kind of man whose name you knew whether you wanted to or not.
He and his wife Myrta, born a Hunt, daughter of a pioneer area family who knew this land before most folks had heard of it, needed a home worthy of what they were building here. So Warren didn't just hire any hand with a pencil. He brought in W.
M. Rice, a noted architect out of Amarillo, and Rice drew up the plans. Now think about that for a moment — you're so serious about your house that you commission a noted Amarillo architect.
That two-story brick residence rose up in the Overton Addition, and here's the detail that gives it real weight: the Overton Addition was the first residential addition to the original townsite of Lubbock. First. So in a very real sense, this home wasn't just in the neighborhood — it was at the beginning of the neighborhood.
Warren lived until 1938, Myrta until 1967, and that house? It stayed in the Bacon family for over 65 years. Some things you build, and then some things you build to last.
What the marker says
This two-story brick home was built in 1916 for Warren A. Bacon (1871-1938), a prominent Lubbock business and civic leader, and his wife Myrta (Hunt) (1878-1967), daughter of a pioneer area family. The Bacon residence was constructed from plans of W. M. Rice, a noted Amarillo architect, and was located in the Overton Addition, the first residential addition to the original townsite of Lubbock. It remained in the Bacon family for over 65 years. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1982.