{"nrhp_refnum":"02000527","name":"Winters-Wimberley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14070 Ranch Road 12","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wimberley","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":29.998160152000025,"lon":-98.09850659699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ca. 1856 vernacular one-story limestone house on a five-acre site overlooking Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Hays County, Texas, built for miller and furniture maker William C. Winters. It has a hall-parlor plan with multiple frame additions at the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to the early settlement of the Wimberley area and to the mill that anchored the community, noting it is the only substantial intact resource linked to the millers and their families. It is also significant as an example of 1850s stone construction in a region where log houses were more typical, with later alterations that reflect historic trends within the period of significance.","narrative":"This limestone house sits on a bluff above Cypress Creek at the edge of Wimberley, Texas. William C. Winters, who bought a mill site near the trading post of Glendale in 1856, had it built about that year. Its 18-inch ashlar walls, side-gabled form and full-width porch give it a symmetrical look, but physical evidence shows the original house had two rooms in a hall-parlor plan. The builder is unknown, though the stonework shows considerable craftsmanship. Later owners added rooms to the rear in several campaigns from the late 1880s through the late 1930s, and changed the porch posts and windows. Winters's mill drew other settlers and shaped the growing community, and after his death the property passed to his daughter and her husband, then to the Wimberley family. The five-acre site also holds a cow shed and storage shed from about 1900. It now serves as a museum, and restoration is continuing.","period_of_significance":"1856-1935","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: Hall-parlor plan","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum; restoration and rehabilitation work was under way, with later phases planned for the frame additions and outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.379311-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9725/40972550/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/02000527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000527/3c990972c3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000527/3c990972c3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WintersWimberly1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WintersWimberly1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972550","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winters%E2%80%93Wimberley_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8026500"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/winters-wimberley-house-02000527/"}