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Buna, Texas: The Polka Dot House

First painted in polka dots in the late 1940s by its builder, Virgil Newton Davis, and maintained in dots ever since. The colors have occasionally varied over the years.

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Polka Dot House

In tiny Buna, Texas, just north of Beaumont, is a house painted with purple polka dots that has been a local curiosity for years. The home's owner originally painted the dots and later opted to paint it solid but reportedly locals would sneak up in the middle of the night and the polka-dots would return. I think it houses the Buna Chamber of Commerce now. I'm not certain.

[Richard Smith, 01/02/1999]

The Polka Dot House

Address:
Main St., Buna, TX
Directions:
North side of town. On the west side of Main St./Hwy 62 about a quarter-mile south of its intersection with US Hwy 96.
Admission:
Free
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