“The Cliquot club enjoyed a beautiful strolling party last evening… The entire lower floor of the handsome Heffron home was thrown open to the young people for the occasion. The verandas and lawn were decorated with Japanese lanterns… After the sixth number supper was served. This was preceded by a grand march around the beautiful garden… The punch table was placed under a tall fig tree in the western corner of the garden.” ~ Galveston Tribune, 1907
Can you picture young Norine Heffron’s party at the 1900 Isaac and Clothilde Heffron Home now? Designed by Charles Bulger for Isaac Heffron, an influential Galvestonian contractor who was instrumental in the development of the island. As a pipe and cement contractor, Mr. Heffron was responsible for the railway trestle bridge to Galveston, the water works, first sewer systems, and many other projects. Completed shortly before the Great Storm of 1900, the house was called home by the Heffron family for 43 years. Now, this
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