Munger's niece, Rena Munger Aldredge and her husband George Aldredge, owned the home at 5500 Swiss Avenue, a massive French Eclectic mansion with Beaux Arts details designed by Hal Thomson and originally built for Texas rancher, William J. Collett's brother, Hamilton Munger, an architect, lived directly across the street in the Eclectic Style home he designed and built at 5405 Swiss Avenue. Munger's son, Collett Munger, who was the manager-in-residence of his father's Munger Place development, owned the massive Prairie Style home at 5400 Swiss Avenue. Munger himself never resided on Swiss Avenue, but several members of his family did. Munger developed the Munger Place neighborhood, he established Swiss Avenue as its centerpiece – a boulevard of grand homes that would serve for decades as the exclusive enclave of the city's most prominent citizens. When cotton-gin magnate and real-estate visionary Robert S. The saboteurs were spotted and apprehended a few blocks away and the plan was scuttled before the explosives could be detonated. The threats culminated in saboteurs posing as coal delivery men and dropping explosives through the coal chute in the basement of his home on Swiss Avenue. Padgitt receiving death threats from German sympathizers, which he ignored. His contributions to the Allied war effort resulted in Mr. Padgitt designed and patented a medical saddle bag for use by the British and American Army during World War I. Durell's wife, Mai Blanche.ĭue to his expertise as a major leather-goods manufacturer, Mr. And that same year, he built the Italian Renaissance Style home at 5421 Swiss, designed by famed architect Hal Thomson, as a wedding gift for his son, J. Five years later, he built his own High Prairie Style mansion at 4937 Swiss, designed by architect Charles P. In 1912, he built a classic Prairie Style home at 4933 Swiss for his daughter. Padgitt built three impressive homes on the street. His family's presence on Swiss Avenue was not quite as prolific as was the Higginbothams, but it was significant, nonetheless. He was also instrumental in organizing The State Fair of Texas. Padgitt was the co-founder of Padgitt Brothers Manufacturing Company, the largest wholesale saddle manufacturer in America.
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