Meissner-Pleasants House

This one-story frame house at 108 N. Hunt Street in Cuero, Texas, is an L-plan dwelling dated to about 1880, with a front ell added in 1889. It has weatherboard siding, a gable roof, wood double-hung windows with four-over-four lights, and a double-door main entrance with a transom. A five-bay shed-roofed porch on the east side has box columns with molded caps and squared wood balusters, and a square projecting bay with a gable sits on the north side. The house appears on an 1881 bird's-eye map of Cuero. Tax rolls list Edward Meissner as owner from 1880, the first year such records were kept, until R.A. Pleasants bought it in 1891. Pleasants contracted for lot improvements that year, and the front ell was added. In 1903 F.A. Taylor, a dry goods merchant, purchased it. The house was listed as a noteworthy example of vernacular architecture in Cuero that incorporates some Greek Revival detailing. It remains in residential use in good condition.