{"nrhp_refnum":"04000379","name":"Brick Streets Neighborhood Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by South Broadway, W. Dobbs St., S. Kennedy Ave., S. Vine Ave., Interior Propery Lines, S. College Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tyler","county":"Smith County","state":"TX","lat":32.34253226850004,"lon":-95.30457565835742,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-04-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 29-block residential neighborhood historic district of about 132.6 acres in south central Tyler, Smith County, Texas, roughly half a mile south of the original town square. It developed between about 1848 and 1953 and holds 586 resources, 369 of them contributing.","why_significant":"The district preserves a mid-19th to mid-20th century neighborhood of eclectic revival-style houses, commercial buildings, a school and a church, shaped by Tyler's growth and the East Texas oil boom of 1930-31. It holds the largest concentration of surviving red brick-paved streets in the city. It reflects its late 19th and early 20th century development more strongly than any other Tyler neighborhood.","narrative":"Brick Streets Neighborhood Historic District covers 29 blocks in south central Tyler, Texas, about half a mile south of the courthouse square. Development began around 1848 with the Bell-Jones House and gathered pace from the 1880s through several platted subdivisions. Growth peaked between about 1890 and 1940, and the discovery of the East Texas Oil Field in 1930-31 created a housing shortage that led to new bungalows, duplexes and four-plexes. Most of the 586 resources are single-family houses and their garages, built in Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Craftsman styles, mostly by local craftsmen. A few commercial buildings, a school and a church are also present. Red brick paving, laid beginning in the mid-1920s, survives on many streets and forms the largest such concentration in the city, along with concrete curbs, stone walls and a stone-lined drainage channel built under Depression-era programs. Mature trees and consistent setbacks tie the varied architecture together.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Classical Revival; Spanish Colonial Revival; Mediterranean Revival; Dutch Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Art Moderne; Minimal Traditional; Ranch; Queen Anne; Free Classic Queen Anne; Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most properties are in good to fair condition; the district is nearly fully developed, with only a few scattered vacant parcels. Historic uses continue today.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.194694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/9699/40969959/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/04000379.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969959","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999617"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/smith-county/brick-streets-neighborhood-historic-district-04000379/"}