East Terrace House

Located at  - 100 Mill St, Waco, TX 76704.

The East Terrace House was completed in 1874 by John Wesley Mann, an ex-Confederate soldier who moved to Waco from Tennessee. 

The house is an example of Italianate architecture, a style seen but rarely in the South. East Terrace offers a visual feast of the Italianate with its vertical proportions, tall hooded windows, horizontal roofline, and bracketed cornices. Its square Mansard-roofed cupola is particularly striking. The cupola boasts a tower room with excellent views of the estate’s acreage and the Brazos River.

My favorite thing about this house was from 1930 to 1939.  Mann leased East Terrace to Charles Lemly who converted it into the Lemly Chiropractic Psychopathic Sanatorium. So if you've ever felt weird about going to a chiropractor, that could be why.

In 1967 East Terrace received the Texas Restoration Award.

The East Terrace House is now a historic house museum run by the Historic Waco Foundation.