{"nrhp_refnum":"01000665","name":"Harris Drug Store","other_names":["Westerman Drug Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"114 S. Chadbourne St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Angelo","county":"Tom Green County","state":"TX","lat":31.461698029000047,"lon":-100.43601309199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate cut native sandstone commercial building at 114 South Chadbourne Street, San Angelo, Texas, completed in 1891 for brothers R.E. and J.W. Harris, with a red brick warehouse addition from 1926.","why_significant":"It was built as a pharmacy and housed drug stores for about 105 years, with doctors and a dentist using the upper floor. The nomination highlights its exceptional stone masonry by the Willeke brothers, the largest exposed cut native stone wall surviving in San Angelo, and its likely design by architect Oscar Ruffini. It is also described as a typical premier 1890s commercial building on an early masonry block of Chadbourne Street.","narrative":"Built in 1891 at 114 South Chadbourne Street in San Angelo, this two-story building of cut native sandstone served as a pharmacy for 105 years. R.E. and J.W. Harris commissioned it, and stonemasons John and Anton Willeke built it. It has an iron storefront made in St. Louis, a bracketed metal cornice and arched-trim windows. Its north wall, exposed by an alley, is described as the largest exposed cut native stone wall surviving in San Angelo. Doctors and a dentist rented offices upstairs in the 1890s, and later drug stores included the Owl, Concho, Perkins and Westerman. A red brick warehouse added around 1926 enlarged the building by more than half. The architect was probably Oscar Ruffini, though this cannot be proven. A fire in July 1999 damaged the building, and it was restored in 2000. The building is one of three surviving pre-1900 structures on its block, all of which stand apart from their neighbors.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stonemasons John and Anton Willeke; general contractor Z.D. Gafford (listed as architect in the contract); carpenter Joe S. Chance; probably designed by Oscar Ruffini","architectural_style":"Italianate; 2-part commercial block","criteria":[],"status_note":"Damaged by a major fire in July 1999 and fully restored in 2000; current function is commerce/business.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.799623-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/9702/40970243/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/01000665.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000665/5b79f88f68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000665/5b79f88f68-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris_Drug_Store,_San_Angelo,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris_Drug_Store,_San_Angelo,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970243","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107323062"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tom-green-county/harris-drug-store-01000665/"}