{"nrhp_refnum":"03000557","name":"House at 912 Magoffin Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"912 Magoffin Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"El Paso","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.76138454000005,"lon":-106.47922399799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick house at 912 Magoffin Avenue in El Paso, Texas, first built around 1895 and modified to its current form around 1904, in the city's first elite residential neighborhood east of downtown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent, high-style example of late Victorian residential architecture in El Paso, combining Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features. Its brick construction reflects the shift from traditional adobe building to national trends after the railroad arrived. It meets Criterion C in Architecture at the local level.","narrative":"Located at 912 Magoffin Avenue in El Paso, this two-story red brick house was first built around 1895 and reworked into its present form around 1904. It sits in the Magoffin neighborhood, the city's first elite residential district, laid out in the 1880s east of downtown. Load-bearing brick walls rest on a granite foundation, and an intricate arrangement of hipped roofs and gables covers its asymmetrical massing. A curved central wall wrapped by a two-story porch, elaborate brickwork around an elliptical-arched triple window, turned wood columns, spindlework and cornice dentils combine Queen Anne and Colonial Revival details. The house was recognized for architecture at the local level. It illustrates how El Paso's wealthy residents built fashionable brick mansions after the railroad arrived, replacing traditional adobe construction. After decades of decline, apartment conversion and neglect, it was carefully rehabilitated in 1999 as an office and retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"c.1904","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1999 and used as an office; it was once divided into apartments and neglected for years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.703811-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/9718/40971859/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03000557.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000557/ef86580163-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000557/ef86580163-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Treecholla","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Treecholla</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:Historic_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"16000717","name":"Magoffin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/magoffin-historic-district-16000717/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971859","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_912_Magoffin_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65121335"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/house-at-912-magoffin-avenue-03000557/"}