Physical Description1 file.
Note:This file contains the documentation for the Texas Historical Commission's designation of the Goforth-Harris House in 2008, including a research paper by Max Warshauer.
Note:Another file, TTWC BIOGRAPHY--GOFORTH, has information about the Goforth family.
Note:Another file, TTWC Biography--Harris, Thomas G. has information about the Harris family.
Note:"T.J. Goforth, who founded a town with his name in Hays County, built this house c. 1905. Eight years later, he sold the house to Thomas Green Harris, first president of Texas State University and later president of San Marcos Academy. Harris was a mathematics teacher and administrator for more than forty years in Georgia and Texas. The house has been a single-family residence, apartments, and a sorority house. The Goforth-Harris House shows characteristic Victorian era features. A curved double gallery fills the space between the main block and the ell. Distinctive details include projecting bays brick chimneys, turned posts, fish scale shingles, pendants, and jigsawn brackets in the gable ends. Recorded Texas Landmark - 2008"
Electronic Resource:Electronic resource:
http://www.hank.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/SMHC/DOCUMENTS/National Register of Historic Places/Goforth-Harris.pdf -- Note: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form
