Located at 113 East Dumble Street, in Alvin, TX, you will find the famous Victorian house called the Slover-Rogers Cottage. If you are a fan of architecture, it’s worth the time to see it. Further facts about Alvin, TX can be found here.
1909
The Alvin Historical Museum Society owns and operates the Slover-Rogers Cottage. This little house was built to showcase the craftsmanship and Victorian building skills of a Civil War veteran named John Greenleaf Slover. He enjoyed throwing everything Victorian into the house including gingerbread accents, turrets, a bowknot fence, and three-panel pocket doors. One of the charming tales about the house is that Slover built the house from materials salvaged from the Oscar Cummings house. The Cummings house had been destroyed in the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Information about Nolan Ryan Exhibit at the Alvin Historical Museum in Alvin, TX can be found here.
Marguerite Rogers House Museum
Originally the pretty little cottage was called the Marguerite Rogers House. The house itself is over 112 years old. In 1994, Emaline Rogers-Wood-Longnecker left the property to the Alvin Historical Society, requesting that it be named for her mother Marguerite Rogers and her father James Rogers.
Fence
When the Historical Society received the house, they were able to use a 1909 picture of Mr. Slover in front of the house to recreate the white bowknot fence that he originally built around the lot.
