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Jackson House
1600 Avenue I
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Timeline:
1956 Constructed as Rachel Jackson House [1]
Unit A (A-6) Tex-41-CH-31 [1,2]
Namesake:
Rachel Jackson
 
Architect:
 
Contractor(s):
Small House Houston House Alpha Delta Pi House Alpha Chi Omega House Jackson House Sigma Sigma Sigma House Gibbs House Zeta Tau Alpha  House Shaver House
Jackson House is one of the eight small houses on Sorority Hill, located north of 17th Street and between Avenues I and J.

Of the eight houses, only Jackson and Shaver Houses appear to have never housed a sorority and not changed names over the years.

Photographs
Gibbs House An aerial photograph from the early 1900s reveals how close the city of Huntsville sat next to Sam Houston Normal Institute.
Jackson House A view of the path 17th Street would take were it not interrupted by the houses on Sorority Hill. The northern edge of the Parking Garage looms over the "rear entrance" of Jackson House.
Jackson House Signage out front the building.
 

Sources:
[1] Minutes from the Board of Regents; February 28, 1958
[2] SHSC Revenue Bond Buildings (c.1965)
 
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