Kemp, E. A., House

Built around 1924 at 606 W. 17th Street in Bryan, Texas, this two-story frame house is an example of the airplane bungalow form, with a single room on the second story. It has horizontal siding, a gable roof with composition shingles, exposed rafter ends, and wood double-hung windows with one-over-one lights. A gabled porch across the south elevation and a porte cochere rest on short tapered box columns set on elongated brick piers, and a brick chimney rises from the roof. The house sits in a neighborhood of modest early twentieth-century dwellings in the northwest part of the city. It was listed for two reasons: its architecture and its link to local Black history. The survey calls it one of the best remaining local examples of bungalow design. From the mid-1920s it was the home of the E. A. Kemp family. Kemp is regarded as perhaps the best known Black educator in Bryan, and the Kemp Junior-Senior High School was named for him. The house remains residential, in fair condition.