The Tarlton House

Texas · United States · Execution site

Greene Duke Tarlton built this house in 1895 for his family and spared nothing on it. He lost his second wife, and what happened after that is told.

Greene Duke Tarlton built this house at Hillsboro, Texas in 1895. He spared no money on it, and it was intended as something that would outlast him and belong to his family.

His second wife died.

What is said to have happened to him afterwards, on the third floor, is not documented, and it is not asserted here.

He is described walking the halls.

A man who builds an elaborate house as a legacy and then loses the person he built it for is a recurring figure in this collection, and the houses concerned are always the ambitious ones. The plain ones do not seem to hold anybody.

Hillsboro is a cotton town and the courthouse on its square is one of the most extravagant in Texas, which tells you what kind of money was here in the 1890s.

The house takes guests.

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Where is The Tarlton House located?

The Tarlton House is in Texas, United States.