Edna J. Moore Seaholm House

Duane's take

Here's my telling of what the official marker has to say about the Edna J. Moore Seaholm House in Llano County. Now settle in, because this one's got layers.

In 1892, Frank H. and Alice Hester Hargon set out to build themselves a Victorian cottage, and they didn't cut corners. They went to the Llano Brick and Lumber Company, spent six hundred dollars on materials, and what they got was a one and one-half story L-plan house with turned porch columns, a jigsawn frieze and bargeboards, and a box window right there on the principal facade. It's the kind of place where you can tell somebody cared about the details.

Now here's where the story takes its first turn. That same year, 1892, the Hargons sold the house. Sold it for a thousand dollars to a woman named Edna J.

Moore, born in 1877. So the house changed hands the very year it was built, and the person who walked through that front door would end up defining everything about it. Edna J.

Moore was a rancher and a banker. Let that sit for a moment. In 1892.

A rancher and a banker. She made that house her home, and she kept it. In 1928 she married Julius Seaholm, and she stayed right there in that house.

When Julius died in 1931, she stayed. She stayed until her own demise in 1953. Sixty-one years that house had one woman's name written all over it, even if her name on the deed changed along the way.

The Hargons built it. Edna J. Moore Seaholm claimed it.

And some houses, friend, just know who they belong to.

What the marker says

Built in 1892 for Frank H. and Alice Hester Hargon with materials purchased from the Llano Brick and Lumber Company for $600, this house is a nicely detailed one and one-half story L-plan Victorian cottage. Notable features include the turned porch columns, jigsawn frieze and bargeboards, and the box window on the principal facade. The house was sold in 1892 to Edna J. Moore (1877-1953) for $1,000. A rancher and banker, she continued to live in the house after her marriage in 1928 to Julius Seaholm and following his death in 1931 until her own demise. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1998