W.H. Smith House

William H. Smith moved from his native Louisiana to Victoria to be a tutor for John J. Welder’s children. Mr. Smith married Kathryn Fleming, and hired architects James Hull and Charles Praeger to design this Neoclassical Reviv­al-style house which was completed in 1911. W. H. Smith was later the pro­prietor of the Victoria Hardware Co., and a director of the Victoria Bank & Trust Co.