Louis J. Conti House

"The Old Conti Place"

5507 North Main Street

 

On March 1, 1923, Mrs. Annie Haller sold 589.74 acres to Louis John Conti for $61,360 or $104.05 per acre. Thus began the seventy-three year stewardship of the Carbajal land by the Conti Family; twenty-six of

these under the watchful eye of Louis J. Conti.

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Conti, born in 1869 in Sumirage, Italy, came to this country in 1891 or 1892 through Galveston as he felt he had no future in Italy. Mr. Conti came to Victoria to work on the railroad. He first purchased land on the west side of the Guadalupe River. Here, his children were born and raised. When Mrs. Annie Haller decided to sell the land on Spring Creek, Mr. Conti came forward and met her price.

 

By the time Louis Conti purchased the property, all of his children were grown. The Conti children, generally, lived long lives. This they inherited from their mother, Rosa W. Castelnova Conti. Born in 1873, she lived to be 102 years old! Louis died in 1949 at the age of eighty. Carolyn, Frank, Albert, and Rose returned to the Conti home and spent their last years there. Rose eventually inherited the house.

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You can learn more about this home and the families that have lived here in Volume II of Historic Homes of Victoria, available here online through our SHOP or at the Victoria Preservation, Inc. office.