Nesom Residence
El Paso, Texas

Description: Nesom residence
Other Names: Morgan house; LeBaron house
Address: 1226 East Yandell Drive, at Brown Street (southwest corner), El Paso El Paso County, Texas
Type: domestic: single family house
Original Client: J. J. Nesom
Historic Inventory:
Date: ca. 1903-1907
Condition: extant

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: one story, oblong, with entry on the long (north) side
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: stone
Wall Materials: brick, stuccoed
Roofing Materials: originally shingles
Other Materials Used: wood window frames and ornamental roof vents
Remodeling and Additions: side porches have been enclosed

Present Owner: privately owned
Location of Drawings: none known to exist
Location of Documentary Photographs: El Paso Public Library: Aultman, A5843; Ponsford 177, entry way; Ponsford 178, living room interior

Bibliography: Trost & Trost, Architects (El Paso: Trost & Trost, 1907), page 6, montage, photograph with landscape added in watercolor; page 24, photograph of interior (Ponsford 178); page 25, photograph of entrance (Ponsford 177); page 30, photograph of entry side

Remarks: A check of the El Paso city directory of 1908 found that it listed the resident as T. J. Morgan; a note in the El Paso Public Library Trost index states: 1912 occupied by George R. LeBaron. It would appear that J. J. Nesom lived in the house a relatively brief time, and that it then became rental property.

Prepared for the El Paso Public Library by Lloyd C. and June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990