Hiller House

This house at 501 E. Church in Victoria, Texas, is a one-and-a-half-story wood-frame dwelling, dated by estimate to 1870. It follows a hall-and-parlor plan with a rear ell and has weatherboard siding, a gable roof with box eaves, and exterior brick chimneys on the east and west ends. The symmetrical four-bay north facade has two centered single doors, each sheltered by a gabled single-bay porch. Box columns with molded capitals support the porches, and a denticulated frieze runs along their east and west sides. Windows are mostly six-over-six wood sash, with one-over-one sash upstairs and twelve-over-twelve sash on the north elevation. The house was recognized for its architecture. The porch dentils, the capital moldings and the scale of the upper-story north windows point to late Greek Revival influence on an otherwise vernacular, two-room house with a rear lean-to. It stands in a residential area in the southeast part of the original townsite and remains in residential use.