East End Historic District (Galveston, Texas)
The East End Historic District encompasses a large 19th-century residential area in eastern Galveston, Texas.This early growth included the construction of a number of Greek Revival houses in the eastern end of the island, some of which still stand.[2] The eastern end of Galveston Island became its preeminent residential district, where the city's civic and business leaders built their houses.The grandest mansion in the area is the so-called Bishop's Palace, completed in 1893 for politician and lawyer Walter Gresham.Most of the district's 550-plus buildings are residences that show Victorian architectural styles, although a number of relatively unaltered examples of the Greek Revival survive from its early days.