{"nrhp_refnum":"03000771","name":"Newman, I.M. and Margaret, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"309 Ragland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sweetwater","county":"Nolan County","state":"TX","lat":32.474714480000046,"lon":-100.40293412099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Tudor Revival single-family house with a full basement at 309 Ragland Street, Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, built in 1925 for I.M. (Mose) and Margaret Newman. A garage and guest house (originally servant quarters) from the same year stands on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good, intact local example of Tudor Revival residential architecture from the 1920s, designed by Abilene architects Nichol and Campbell. It was among the first houses in a neighborhood platted on former Newman ranchland, and it keeps a high degree of integrity. It was built for descendants of pioneer Nolan County families.","narrative":"Built in 1925 at 309 Ragland Street in Sweetwater, Texas, this red brick and clay tile house was designed in the Tudor Revival style by the Abilene firm of Nichol and Campbell for I.M. (Mose) and Margaret Newman. It has a steep cross-gabled roofline, arched windows and dormers, rounded entries, and stone-capped brick walls, and it sits on a large corner lot with a matching garage and guest house. The land was once part of the Newman family's Blue Goose Ranch, and the house was among the first built in a neighborhood platted from that ranchland. The Newmans were early settlers of Nolan County with ranching, banking, oil mill and racehorse interests. The house is valued as a well-preserved local example of 1920s residential architecture. Original doors, windows, plaster walls and oak floors survive, and later changes, such as a remodeled kitchen and finished attic, have been modest. It remains a single-family home.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"Nichol, William J. and Campbell, George F., Abilene, Texas, Architects","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the form describes a high degree of integrity with few exterior changes since 1925.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.69354-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/9730/40973096/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03000771.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000771/670134d732-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000771/670134d732-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newman_House_Sweetwater_Texas.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:Newman_House_Sweetwater_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973096","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107321021"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/nolan-county/newman-i-m-and-margaret-house-03000771/"}