The Spacious Castle Heights Addition

ID: 1211 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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The Spacious Castle Heights Addition

This 1924 plot of the neighborhood was kept in the McLennan County Plot Records. That year, sixty spacious lots were available to interested homebuyers. Note the name of engineer G. E. Byers and his assistant, H J. Caufield, at the top of the map.

This file appears in: Castle Heights Neighborhood

By J. B. Smith
In its early days in the 1920s, Castle Heights was just a grassy hill at the end of the streetcar line, with a clear view of the Amicable building downtown. The city of Waco has since grown miles beyond the hill, and oaks and magnolia trees have…