501 Lois Street

1934.  Kerr County Historical Commission collection.

These two photos do indeed depict the same house. Look carefully at the decorative edges on the front of the house and the arrangement of the windows.  At some point the flat roof was replaced with a pitched roof. Flat roofs are notorious for leaking. Perhaps that is why the roof was changed.
The house was built by E. L. Spence, a local homebuilder.  In February 1934, he sold the house to William J. and Ruth Franke. After Ruth died in 1936, W. J. Franke tried to sell his stucco home in Westland "all modern conveniences".  In the end he kept the house and remarried. His second wife, Margaret, was17 years younger. He died in 1968.  She lived here five more years before selling to Herbert and Lucile Brehmer who owned Brehmer's Jewelers.
This block has had slow commercial encroachment. Businesses have operated out of this house since Kirby Vacuum sales opened in 1980.