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The stately Italianate mansion known as Ashton Villa is the oldest of the few survivors from the days when Broadway, the locus of wealth and power in Galveston, was a street lined with magnificent Victorian homes. Begun in 1859, Ashton Villa stood out in antebellum Galveston for its extensive use of new materials: brick and cast iron.Hafertepe, Kenneth is the author of 'History of Ashton Villa A Family and Its House in Victorian Galveston, Texas', published 1991 under ISBN 9780876111123 and ISBN 0876111126.
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