Davis, James N.

James Nathaniel "Nat" Davis (d. 1902) built this two-story galleried residence in 1899. The designer was Charles W. Bulger, a Galveston architect. As a reporter for the Galveston Daily News, Davis wrote some of the earliest accounts of the destructive 1900 hurricane. After he drowned two years later, his wife Ella (Rust) rented several rooms of the house. One tenant, Frank Chauncy Patten (1855-1934), was the first librarian of Galveston's Rosenberg Library. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1979

Davis, James N. is a historical marker in Galveston, Galveston County, dedicated in 1979. It is one of 281 historical markers documented in Galveston County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 352 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.2966, -94.7922 near Galveston. The nearest cataloged historic site is George H. Nicholls (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Olga Samaroff, Ball Home, and Sweeney-Royston House.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5167007426. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.