The John Bremond Jr. House at 700 Guadalupe St in Austin is listed as a contributing building to the Bremond Block Historic District, which is roughly bounded by Guadalupe, San Antonio, 7th and 8th Streets in Austin.
From the nomination form on file at the Texas Historical Commission: (
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The Bremond District represents a Victorian neighborhood of the middle to late nineteenth century. The individual homes have been preserved intact in almost unaltered form, and individual programs of restoration have been carried out with a sympathetic eye to the traditions and style of the neighborhood Thus, the District is valuable both as an indication of architectural tastes of the last century, and as a mirror on the society which was responsible for its creation."
From Wikipedia, a more compact lost of the contributing buildings in this historic district, as follows: (
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"James T. Brown House, 610 Guadalupe St
John Bremond, Jr. House, 700 Guadalupe St
Phillips-Bremond-Houston House, 706 Guadalupe St
Pierre Bremond House, 402 W 7th St
Eugene Bremond House, 404 W 7th St
North Flats-Howson House, 700 San Antonio St
William Franklin North Apartment, 702 San Antonio St
Catherine Robinson House, 705 San Antonio St
North Cottage, 706 San Antonio St
North-Evans Chateau/Austin Women's Club, 708 San Antonio St
Walter Bremond House, 711 San Antonio St."
From the Handbook of Texas Online: (
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“BREMOND BLOCK HISTORIC DISTRICT. The Bremond Block, a National Register historic district in Austin, is one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. The individual homes have been preserved intact in almost unaltered form. Large live oaks and lush planting frame these residences at the edge of a bluff a short walk from Congress Avenue. Six of these houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles. They are located within the square block bordered by West Seventh, West Eighth, Guadalupe, and San Antonio streets. The district also includes several houses on the west side of San Antonio and the south side of West Seventh, at least three of which were built or altered by the North family. . . .
Two other two-story houses, on West Seventh, complete the Bremond Block's significant buildings. Though both are of the local tan brick, they are of quite different character. . . . .
The 1886 Second Empire style John Bremond house on the corner of Seventh and Guadalupe is the most outstanding of all of the buildings and has been pictured in textbooks as a graceful and exuberant example of Texas Victorian architecture. Its crested mansard roof has elaborate dormers, polychrome slate shingles, and concave bracketed curves on the front gable. The cast-iron work on the wrap-around gallery is outstanding. This house and several of the others were built by George Fiegel. . . .
All the buildings within the Bremond Block are beautifully maintained.”