420 Mantooth

Site No.: L-0839
Address: 420 Mantooth
Date: 1930-1940
Town: Lufkin
Block: 70
Lot: 6, # 3570-3189-070-006.00
Condition: Good
Description: 1-story; wood frame with rough finish stucco; U-plan; intersecting gable roofs with flat deck and narrow mansard roof over porch; inset porch with arched openings and two central spiraled Tuscan columns; centered entry door; windows are 8/8, 4/4 wood double-hung; at east bays on south facade, windows are separated by spiraled pilasters, with oval arched transom light; at west bay on south facade two multipaned casement doors are flanked by spiraled columns with finial capitols and a semicircular transom light; curved stepped buttress at southwest corner of west bay; wrought iron railing on porch; exterior brick chimney on west; detached garage.
Significance: The 1928 directory lists Delmas and Jacque Newsom at Sun Mantooth; he worked at the Lufkin Coca Cola Bottling Company. The 1937 directory list the Newsoms at 420 Mantooth; he was Associate Manager of the Coca Cola Bottling Company. The different addresses can probably be attributed to a large scale address change throughout the city between 1928 and 1937, noted in the directories. The structure is a good example of a small Mediterranian Revival style residence in Lufkin. Nominated to the National Register. The significance is architecture.