Classified ads in September 1905 offered the house at 1100 Harvard for lease: eight rooms, completely furnished, with a stable and gas plant, one block from the streetcar line, at $35 a month. In 1910 a resident advertised a “very desirable 3-gallon Jersey cow” from the same address. The corner’s first documented life was thoroughly domestic.
The source
Source: Houston Post classifieds, Sept. 1–5, 1905; Houston Daily Post, July 21, 1910. No scan of this page is reproduced here.