Georgetown's Victorian Homes

Just a couple of blocks off Georgetown's famous courthouse square, the cotton-and-railroad money of the late 1800s built a neighborhood of showpiece homes — Queen Annes with wraparound porches, turrets, and jigsawn "gingerbread" trim, alongside dignified professors' and merchants' houses. Several are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and together they make one of the most intact Victorian residential districts in Central Texas. This easy walk loops past six of the finest, each tied to a family that helped shape the town: merchants, a university president, and the professional class that a prosperous county seat produced. It's a short stroll through the domestic side of Georgetown's golden age, where the same wealth that filled the square's storefronts came home to build front porches.