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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: John Nance Garner House, Camp Wood, Real County, TX
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Garner, John Nance
     Garner, Mariette Rheiner
     University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture , sponsor
     Heritage Society of Austin: Phillip Creer Scholarship , sponsor
     Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship , sponsor
     Leary, Dan , faculty sponsor
     Charalambides, Jason , field team
     Horan, Ann , field team
     Humphrey, Beth , field team
     Fucci, Beth , field team
     Rees, Chay , field team
     Rose, Lindsay , field team
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 3
  Measured Drawing(s): 11
  Photo Caption Page(s): 1
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS TEX,193-CAMP.V,1-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • 1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place
  • Significance: John Nance Garner, the thirty-second Vice President of the United States lived in this small frame-house for the last nineteen years of his life. Born in 1868 in Detroit, Texas, Garner moved to Uvalde in 1890, where his law and political career began. A position as county judge soon led to his election to the State Legislature, where he served until 1902. A life-long Democrat, Garner became the first Representative from the newly created fifteenth-Congressional district. This was the beginning of a three decade career in the United States Congress. After serving as Speaker of the House for one year, he was elected Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; he held this position for eight years until 1941. In 1941, John Nance Garner returned to Uvalde with his wife Mariette and began retirement. He resided in a large brick house built in 1920 o the property they owned since 1907. The property consisted of the large house, a smaller servants frame house, a four car garage, a chicken coop, grape arbor, and tall live oak trees. The smaller house became John Nance Garner's home after his wife's death in 1948; he donated the larger house to the town of Uvalde for use as a museum / library in her name. As a result of this, he actually lived in the frame house longer than the brick house. The frame house became a pilgrimage point for aspiring Democrats and a gathering place for many of this century's cultural and political icons. Garner was visited in his home by Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ralph Yarborough, Dolph Briscoe, and John Wayne. Tourists to the museum often wandered back to his home where they might find him on his front terrace shelling pecans. His ninety-nine year life became an important source of pride for the local community and Texas. Seven years after his death in 1967, the house was sold out of the family and had several owners until its purchase by Louis and Monica Cleckler in 1986. In 1987, the house was moved over 65 miles to its current location on a ranch in Real County. This is not the first move that the house has been through, as it was relocated from the site on which the larger house now sits, to the back of the property in 1920. The frame house currently sits on a stone terrace, is surrounded by a small pool fed by a natural spring, and is almost entirely shaded by tall pecan trees. The John Nance Garner House is a National Historic Landmark.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N731
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3489
  • Building/structure dates: 1920 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1987 Subsequent Work
  • National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76002074
• Subjects:
  • houses
  • domestic life
  • people associated with politics & government
• Place:
  • Texas--Real County--Camp Wood
  • Texas--Uvalde County--Uvalde
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS TEX,193-CAMP.V,1-
• Medium: Photo(s): 3
  Measured Drawing(s): 11
  Photo Caption Page(s): 1

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• Call Number: HABS TEX,193-CAMP.V,1-
• Medium: Photo(s): 3
  Measured Drawing(s): 11
  Photo Caption Page(s): 1

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