Judge Calvin M. Cureton

In 1889 Cureton, a grandson of Capt. Jack Cureton, began moving his father's cattle from Bosque County to the Trans-Pecos. At the University of Virginia he absorbed Jeffersonian ideas, and in 1896 he was state secretary on the People's party executive committee while he and his brother published a monthly, the Southern Arena. Admitted to the bar in 1897, he served in Company I, Third Texas Infantry, in the Spanish-American War and then joined Judge O. L. Lockett's firm. On the high court his opinions promoted development of Texas resources and dealt with water and irrigation rights.

What the plaque says

Judge Calvin M. Cureton (September 1, 1874 - April 8, 1940) Born in Bosque County of a noted pioneer family. A legislator (1909-13); first assistant attorney general (1913-18); Attorney General (1918-21). As Chief Justice (1921-40) Texas Supreme Court, recorded longest service in court's first century. With wife Nora (Morris), built this house in 1928. (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harry Ransom Center — 0.8 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• Texas State Capitol — 0.8 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.
• Bullock Texas State History Museum — 0.9 mi
  The state's history museum at the head of Congress Avenue, built around the hull of La Salle's ship La Belle, raised from Matagorda Bay with 1.8 million artifacts.
• Barton Springs Pool — 1.4 mi
  A three-acre pool in the bed of Barton Creek, fed by the fourth-largest spring in Texas at 68 to 70 degrees, and shared with an endangered salamander found almost nowhere else.

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• Pease School — 0.4 mi
• Site of Edward Mandell House Home — 0.4 mi
• Clarksville — 0.6 mi
• Wood Street Settlement at Shoal Creek — 0.6 mi