House at 1343 Allston Street

This small frame cottage at 1343 Allston Street in Houston Heights was built between 1907 and 1910. It is one story with a rectangular plan and a pitched roof with gable ends. A porch across the front rests on slightly battered, capped, square posts. The single front door has a transom, with two windows on each side of it, and the windows throughout have two-over-two lights. Stone steps lead to the porch, and the house sits on brick piers. Novelty siding covers the walls and the roof is composition. The form notes Colonial Revival influence in its style, and records no alterations to the house, which remains on its original site. It was first the home of a traveling salesman, a resident type described as typical for the Heights. It was listed as a well-kept example of the simple house type found across Texas, and its significance is rated local under architecture. It remains a residence, used as a rental, on a small lot of less than an acre.