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Historical Home Spotlight 
The Smith House
600 West Jefferson Street
Built between 1887 and 1889 by O. F. Parks, this stately Victorian has the builder’s initials elaborately carved in the front door, but he never lived in the house. Although it was evidently purchased by an attorney, a realtor and a New York investment firm, it was unoccupied until 1907. The style of the house is both “Stick” – cypress siding, asymmetrical molding and windows, and linear porch columns and balusters – and “Queen Anne” – dominant gables, fishscale shingles, decorative corbels and finials, and hexagonal bay construction on two sides of the home. The wraparound front porch leads to two different front doors, each with a morning-glory etched glass.
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