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trees surround the house. It is located one and a half miles from the town square. The architect's original watercolor rendition and floor plans are in the archives of the
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Paul's son Louis A. Machemehl, (1881–1952), was a German Texan civic leader as well as a rancher and land and cattle broker. He married
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