Hardy Pace Home

Duane's take

The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the voice carryin' it down the road. Now, somewhere in Jasper County there stands a home with a story older than most anything around it. The Hardy Pace Home.

Built about 1840, and friend, that is not a small number. We're talking hand-hewn logs, every one of them shaped by someone's labor and intention. No sawmill shortcut.

No ordered lumber. Logs, and hands, and time. And holding it all together, a chimney built from moss and clay.

Moss and clay. You sit with that a moment. That chimney wasn't mortared with anything you'd find at a hardware store.

It was built from what the land offered, and apparently what the land offered was enough, because the house kept standing. Kept standing long enough that in 1930, somebody came along and added an annex and put siding on it. Progress meeting history, right there on the same structure.

One building carrying two eras in its walls. The logs underneath, the siding over top, and somewhere in between, all those years of just enduring. That is the Hardy Pace Home of Jasper County.

Hand-hewn, moss-mortared, and still here to be counted.

What the marker says

Originally of hand-hewn logs. Moss and clay chimney. Built about 1840. Annex and siding added 1930. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965