{"nrhp_refnum":"04000894","name":"Dallas Downtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Federal St., North St. Paul St., Pacific Ave., Harwood, South Pearl, Commerce, South Ervay, Akard, and Field Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.78210150500004,"lon":-96.79708775094146,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district in the central business district of Dallas, Texas, just east of the Trinity River, made up of banks, hotels, department stores, offices, theaters and government buildings, mostly dating from the 1910s through the late 1950s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district has a concentration of commercial and public buildings showing Dallas's change from a small agricultural trading center into a financial and retail center for banking, oil, and insurance. It also shows the evolution of the skyscraper form in Texas and reflects the development of city planning in Dallas. It is significant at the local level under Criterion A (commerce, community planning and development) and Criterion C (architecture).","narrative":"Downtown Dallas contains a dense core of commercial architecture just east of the Trinity River. The district covers 98 buildings, sites and structures, with 54 counted contributing resources, 32 noncontributing, and twelve more buildings already individually listed, including the Adolphus Hotel, the Majestic Theater and the Neiman Marcus Building. Most date from the 1910s through the late 1950s and range from modest one- and two-story brick storefronts to tall bank, hotel and office towers in Beaux Arts, Art Deco, Moderne and International styles. Two late nineteenth-century survivors, the Hart Building (1888) and the Sumpter/Leggett Building (1892), predate the boom. The district was recognized for its role in the city's rise as a banking, insurance, oil and retail center, and for showing the growth of city planning, including the Kessler Plan and the 1927 Ulrickson bond program. Buildings sit close to the street, and most changes to them were limited to storefronts or occurred during the historic period.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate); Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Beaux Arts; Commercial Style, Sullivanesque, Chicago School, Skyscraper; Art Deco, Moderne, International, Brutalism; one- and two-part commercial blocks","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most contributing buildings retain a high degree of integrity; most buildings remain commercial in use, and several have recently been rehabilitated, some with apartments added.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.581226-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/9717/40971719/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/04000894.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000894/ce558b523d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000894/ce558b523d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"nonsisamai - Emanuela Errico from dallas, USAOfficial website","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_district_-_dallas,_texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">nonsisamai - Emanuela Errico from dallas, USAOfficial website</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historic_district_-_dallas,_texas.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08001299","name":"Dallas Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/dallas-downtown-historic-district-boundary-increase-08001299/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971719","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Downtown_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5211326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/dallas-downtown-historic-district-additional-documentation-04000894/"}