Grandiose Comfort

ID: 1104 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
This file appears in: Rotan-Dossett House
Grandiose Comfort

Designed for comfort as well as style, the grandiose home contains several staircases, multiple parlors and sitting rooms for entertaining, and thirteen fireplaces, eleven of which are tiled and decorated.

This file appears in: Rotan-Dossett House

By Reeder Dossett
The Rotan-Dossett House is one of several preserved homes in Waco built by prominent figures of McLennan County. Though not a pioneer of the area, Edward Rotan was a major economic figure—a classic nineteenth-century capitalist. He came to McLennan…