Jobe, Phillip W., House

Built around 1900 by real estate speculator Phillip W. Jobe, this one-and-a-half-story house sits at the southwest corner of 9th and Lydia streets in East Austin. It is a raised, transitional-style residence with a complicated hipped and gabled roof and dormers on the east and north sides. A wraparound porch is cut at a 45-degree angle so the building faces the corner, and transomed entrances open on the east and north elevations. Square columns and compatible balusters support the deep porch overhang, dormers carry square shingles, and the gable ends show fish-scale shingles. A low stone-veneer wall of varied colors surrounds the property and visually links it to the grocery across Lydia Street. Apart from the concrete front steps, the house appears intact, and a small south wing was removed before 1935. It was listed for architecture, as a nearly intact example of a transitional-style home typical of those built by newly affluent Austin families at the turn of the century.