Details for Rich Coffey House

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5095004257

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Marker Number 4257
Atlas Number 5095004257
Marker Title Rich Coffey House
Index Entry Coffey, Rich, House
Address
City Paint Rock
County Concho
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 431445
UTM Northing 3493243
Subject Codes ranches/ranching; county official; houses, residential buildings; design and construction
Marker Year 1992
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location 15 mi. NE of Paint Rock, north shore of O.H. Ivie Lake. On private land.
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 27" x 42"
Marker Text Rich Coffey (1823-1897) was a prominent pioneer and settler in the part of the state that now encompasses Runnels and Concho counties. In 1862 Coffey moved his family, cattle, and cowboys to a site near present day Ballinger. Several years later he established a settlement at the confluence of the Colorado and Concho rivers. In addition to raising cattle, freighting, and trading in salt, Coffey served as a Coleman County commissioner, participated in the first county grand jury, and started a post office in 1879. Jonathan Cook, an Irish stonemason, was hired to build a rock house for Coffey in 1880. The house was completed in 1881 as a one-and-a-half-story dogrun structure with exterior chimneys and a staircase in the dogrun that led to a loft. Outstanding features included the quality of the masonry construction and the particular dogrun configuration which was a form common to wooden structures in Coffey's home state of Georgia, but unusual for masonry buildings in central and west Texas. In 1989 the Rich Coffey house was moved to this site to avoid inundation by the construction of nearby Lake Ivie. (1992)
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