Damstrom house, another view, another time?

Board and batten house. Olivia Colony, Texas, circa 1900.

Here is the Damstrom house again. Only I think this might be an earlier picture and, thus, it may be the house before the Damstrom's came to live in it. Compare it with the picture in the last post and see what you think. (Please feel free to post your opinion in the comments!)

This picture fascinates me because of :

1) the board and batten siding;
I'm curious whether the style of house above is common in southern Texas. A search for "board and batten" and "Texas" turned up pictures of a number of early homes with this type of siding at the UTSA Digital Collection. The basic style of the houses was different and they were built by other immigrant groups. There is also a picture of a board and batten Swedish Lutheran church in that collection.

2) all the guttering around the eves and crossing the side upper window;
I will have quite a bit more to say about water and Olivia in some later posts.

3) the fenced garden on the side. -- Fenced with, please note, chicken-wire! (Which I have just found via Wikapedia was invented in 1844, about 50-60 years before it was used here.)

Identifiers:
Negative # paulson061
Place: Olivia Colony, Calhoun County, Texas
Date range: 1893 to 1905

Sources for this post include:
University of Texas at San Antonio Digital Collection
Wikipedia "Chicken Wire"