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NED A. AND LINDA SCKERLS EPPES HOUSE
5322 INSTITUTE LANE
JANDOR GARDENS
HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY
TEXAS
Introduction
The Eppes House, built in 1926, is named after its original occupants. Ned Alwin Eppes
(1883-1929) was a highly successful local entrepreneur who had arrived in Houston from
San Antonio in 1921. He was a concrete "pioneer" and was one of the first to introduce
the use of concrete pipe in this part of the world.1 The Eppes House is one of the earliest
documented examples in Houston of a concrete house2 that exemplifies the Mediterranean
Revival Style, an appropriate style for the concrete method of construction used for this
house. The construction of the Eppes House in 1926 also represents the planned
development of the Jandor Gardens neighborhood by developer Howard Gray Fields
(1883-1960). The house is of significance in the areas of industry and commerce as the
residence of prominent local entrepreneur Ned Alwin Eppes, whose home was at once a
reflection of his pioneering efforts in the manufacture, marketing and use of concrete in
Houston during the 1920s. It is significant as one of the earliest documented examples of
a concrete house in the city that displays Mediterranean Revival stylistic characteristics
and for its place in the development of the Jandor Gardens neighborhood during the
1920s.
The development of the Jandor Gardens neighborhood reflects trends characteristic of
Houston in the decade of the 1920s when it became the largest city in Texas. The 1920s
decade had been a period of economic expansion in Houston based on oil exploration,
iNew Encyclopedia of Texas, 1926, vol. 1. p. 378; Houston Post Dispatch, Tuesday
morning, August 20, 1929; Potts.
2Fox, February 1997./
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Texas Historical Commission. [Historic Marker Application: Ned A. & Linda S. Eppes House], text, September 10, 1998; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth477856/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Historical Commission.