409 Park Street

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Site No.: D-0978
Address: 409 Park Street
Name: Mr. & Mrs. York House; C. L. Moutray
Date: 1938 & 1939
City: Diboll
Block: Park Addition, Block 1
Lot: 7 or 8
Condition: Good; addition at rear (more than 20 years old); originally a four-room house.
Description: 1-story; wood frame with beveled wood siding; concrete pier foundation; rectangular plan; front-facing gable roof with exposed rafter ends, composition shingles; inset screened porch with 4 x 4 porch supports, wood wainscot, two wood-paneled entry doors; windows 4/4 wood double-hung, generally in pairs; detached wood frame garage; set at 90 degrees.
Significance: Built by Southern Pine Lumber Company for White/Temple employees moving from Louisiana. White/Temple enterprise was a mop and broom handle manufacturing facility, located at the current Diboll Temple Eastex mill. It operated from 1938 until 1986.