{"nrhp_refnum":"03000768","name":"Seguin Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Myrtle St., Camp St., Washington St. and Crockett St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seguin","county":"Guadalupe County","state":"TX","lat":29.568806868500047,"lon":-97.96529442950145,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary and period-of-significance increase to the Seguin Commercial Historic District, the central business district of Seguin, Guadalupe County, Texas. It adds nine buildings in three areas next to the original 1983 district and extends the period to 1953.","why_significant":"The district reflects Seguin's growth as a regional trade center from the 1850s to the early 1950s. It was listed under Criterion A (Commerce) and Criterion C (Architecture) at the local level. The added buildings are the remaining eligible commercial and institutional properties on the district's edge, including a 1934 post office, a Greek Revival house of 1851 and a Mission Style church.","narrative":"Seguin's downtown business district was enlarged to take in nine more historic buildings in three areas beside the original boundary, and its period of significance now runs to 1953. The additions include the 1934 Old Seguin Post Office, designed under Treasury Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon; the 1851 Baxter-Fennell-Tips House, a Texas Greek Revival home; four c.1930 cottages known as Tips Court; two small commercial buildings from about 1915 and 1930; and a Mission Style church built about 1877 and reshaped by 1916. The church is one of the last 19th-century concrete buildings in the district. Seguin was once called \"Concrete City\" for its widespread cast-concrete construction. The district records the town's rise as a regional trade center, from the 1840s building boom through the railroad's arrival in 1877 and into the early 1950s. A 2003 resurvey also reclassified several buildings, such as the Palace Theater and the 1949 Masonic Lodge, as contributing.","period_of_significance":"1850s-1953","architect_builder":"Louis A. Simon, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury (Old Seguin Post Office); William Chester Baxter (Tips House); Dr. John Esten Park (general contractor, 1850 Guadalupe Male Academy and 1852 Female Department building)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Craftsman, 1-part commercial block","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Old Seguin Post Office was rehabilitated in 2001 with federal tax credits and is now a law office. The Baxter-Fennell-Tips Complex was being rehabilitated through the tax credit program at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.417582-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/9722/40972217/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03000768.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000768/5e9377f452-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000768/5e9377f452-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aumont_seguin_south_elevation_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aumont_seguin_south_elevation_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972217","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999712"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/guadalupe-county/seguin-commercial-historic-district-boundary-increase-03000768/"}