The Frank J. Perrin house

This house at 1702 Olive St. is one of the oldest surviving houses in Georgetown. It is believed to have been built around 1880 and is all that remains of a five-acre farmstead that used to be located on the southeast side of town. Frank J. Perrin, who was a circuit rider for the Southwestern Texas Conference of Methodist Churches, purchased the home in 1904. In the 1930s-1950s, some students who attended Southwestern University - including members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity - lived in the house. Some of those students scratched their names onto the chimney on the side of the house. The current owners of the house plan to start some work on it soon.