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DATE: May 13, 2002
TO: Historic Landmark Commission
FROM: Stephen C. Richardson, Planning Manager
SUBJECT: Request for an HC-L (Historic -Cultural Landmark Preservation Designation)
FILE: 43-HC
STAFF REPORT
The Planning Manager recommends approval of the historic designation.
Rose Sprott Swain, the applicant, is requesting that the house at 2398 Roberts be designated as
a City of Beaumont historic site.
The property was purchased in 1913 by Mr. Ed Sprott, Sr. Ms. Swain states that he was the first
African American postal worker in Beaumont and also one of the first African American
landowners in Beaumont. He and his first wife Myrtle raised nine children in the two bedroom
home located at 2398 Roberts. Three of the children born in the house became physicians and
founded the Sprott Hospital at 2390 Cartwright. That property was declared a historic landmark
by the City in 1999.
The family homestead was also the birthplace of some of the early leaders of the black
community in Beaumont. Four of the children became teachers, one a postal worker and one
received his Ph.D.
The house was built in the mid- 1800's and is typical of the farmhouse vernacular of the period.
The house is currently under restoration.
Exhibits are attached.