One of the most intriguing houses in Texas is, until recently, one of the most endangered.  The last of Galveston’s privately owned Gilded Age homes, the League-Kempner Mansion is in danger of loss without its determined new savior.  At 1710 Broadway, the home was built by Galveston aristocracy John Charles League and Nellie Ball in 1893.  It represents the last great house of the Broadway Castle District designed by Nicholas Clayton, architect of the Bishop’s Palace.  Following League’s death in 1916, matriarch of the Kempner family Eliza Seinsheimer Kempner acquired the home.  Eliza employed Houston architect to the oil barons …continue reading