{"nrhp_refnum":"03000186","name":"Fogel, Seymour and Barbara, House","other_names":["Southwind"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2411 Kinney Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.24928664400005,"lon":-98.81467603599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family house at 2411 Kinney Road in South Austin, Texas, created in 1953 by converting an 1870s two-story stone and wood barn into a Ranch Style residence and art studio, known as \"Southwind.\"","why_significant":"The house is tied to Seymour Fogel, a renowned American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Texas for 14 years (Criterion B, Art, local level). It is also a Ranch Style home with Usonian influences that reuses a 19th-century barn, which the form calls unique in Austin at the time (Criterion C, Architecture, local level).","narrative":"Southwind, at 2411 Kinney Road in South Austin, began as a barn built in the late 1870s or early 1880s for a dairy farm owned by Dr. George P. Hachenberg. In 1952 the artist Seymour Fogel bought the property and, with architect Harold \"Bubi\" Jessen and carpenter Joe Williams, turned it into a home and studio completed in 1953. The L-shaped Ranch Style house keeps the barn's rough limestone walls, painted white, and reuses weathered barn wood. Its two wings, glass panels, screened porch and concrete floors reflect the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses. Fogel taught at the University of Texas and became a leading figure in Texas Modernist art, painting murals across the state before moving to Connecticut in 1960. The property is significant locally for its link to Fogel and for an unusual conversion of a historic barn into a contemporary residence that was unique in Austin at the time.","period_of_significance":"1953","architect_builder":"Fogel, Seymour; Jessen, Harold \"Bubi\"","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Ranch Style","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a multiple dwelling; the studio has been made a separate apartment and the living room is used as a bedroom. Minor interior and exterior alterations are noted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.04101-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9737/40973779/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03000186.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973779","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002309"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/fogel-seymour-and-barbara-house-03000186/"}