House at 1907 Southwest Ben Jordan

This one-and-a-half-story wood frame house on Southwest Ben Jordan in Victoria, Texas, dates to an estimated 1890. It follows an L-plan under a gable roof covered with composition shingles, and its walls are clad in weatherboard. Box eaves with pent roofs, shingles and jigsawn bargeboards decorate the gable ends. Windows are wood sash, double hung with two-over-two lights. Two single doors with transoms open into the northwest ell, which has a four-bay flat-roofed porch. The porch features turned columns, a jigsawn scalloped frieze, brackets and eave cresting, and jigsawn brackets sit below the soffit of the north projecting bay with angled corners. The house was recorded in a 1984 survey of Victoria's historic resources as being in good condition, in residential use, in a low-density neighborhood in the southeast part of the city. Its significance rests on architecture: it is regarded as one of the most successfully designed and executed L-plan dwellings in Victoria, with modest ornament.