Teague-Waddell House

Duane's take

Here's how the marker tells it, and here's how I'm passing it along to you. In Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, there's a two-story house that carries a name worth knowing, and a street with a nickname worth remembering. Norman P.

Teague was a local businessman, born in 1879, and in 1910 he and his wife Sidney Claire, a Brooks by birth, also born in 1879, put up this residence together. They didn't build plain. The house came with ornate columns and Classical Revival detailing, the kind of architectural flourish that was drawing eyes and turning heads at the time.

Now, the street this house stood on had earned itself a reputation. People called it Rosenberg's Silk Stocking Row, and the Teague house was one of several elegant homes that lined it, each one a statement about who had arrived and what they intended folks to know about it. Sidney Claire would go on living until 1952.

Norman P. Teague, well, his years read 1879 to 1913. The house outlasted him by a long stretch.

By 1925, a man named Jake H. Waddell, born in 1868, purchased the property. Waddell took hold of it, and his family held on.

For over forty years, the Waddell family owned that house on Silk Stocking Row, those ornate columns keeping watch over a street that had seen its share of elegance. Some houses carry more than wood and plaster. This one carried two family names, and it's still carrying them today.

What the marker says

Local businessman Norman P. Teague (1879-1913) and his wife Sidney Claire (Brooks) (1879-1952) erected this two-story residence in 1910. It has ornate columns and Classical Revival detailing popular at the time. This was one of several elegant homes that stood along this street, known as Rosenberg's "Silk Stocking Row." In 1925 Jake H. Waddell (1868-1942) purchased the house. Members of the Waddell family owned the property for over 40 years. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1979