The Architecture of John Staub - Guided Tour with Stephen Fox

Take a guided tour of the 2024 Rehabilitation in Progress property on this year's Galveston Historic Homes Tour with historian Stephen Fox. This tour includes early access to the Homes Tour property and a rare opportunity to explore the home with Staub architectural expert Fox.

Tickets are non-refundable and not applicable towards other homes on the 2024 Galveston Historic Homes Tour.

ABOUT THE 1929 EDWARD AND KATHERINE RANDALL HOUSE

Dr. Edward and Katherine Risher Randall hired Houston architect John Staub to design this imposing two-story brick American Neoclassical house with Georgian influences in 1929. Built by Galveston contractor Tom Brown, newspaper reports during construction touted the “outstanding” house as one of the most attractive homes built that year in the city. In 1932, Staub designed a two-story addition on the east side of the house to support a library and second-story bedroom and four years later, Staub expanded the loggia/sleeping porch on the west side of the house. Mrs. Randall served as the chairperson of the first GHF homes tour in 1975. The current rehabilitation of the house is supervised by Galveston Historical Foundation.

ABOUT STEPHEN FOX

Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and a lecturer at the Rice School of Architecture. He is also a lecturer at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston and a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas. Fox’s work is focused on architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially that of Houston and Texas. In his scholarship, he examines the ways that architecture engages such social constructs as class identity, cultural distinction, and regional differentiation.

Fox is the author of the AIA Houston Architectural Guide (2012), the Country Houses of John F. Staub (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), and is a contributor to the Society of Architectural Historians' The Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, edited by Gerald Moorhead (University of Virginia Press, 2013). He has contributed chapters to The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture, edited by Kathryn E. Holliday (University of Texas Press, 2019), Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, edited by Donna Kacmar (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), and Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony, edited by Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and Making Houston Modern: Howard Barnstone’s Life and Architecture, edited by Barrie Scardino Bradley and Michelangelo Sabatino (University of Texas Press, 2020).

Host or Publisher Galveston Historical Foundation