{"nrhp_refnum":"04000911","name":"Comfort Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by TX 27. Lindner Ave., Cypress Creek, First St., and Front St.,","address_restricted":false,"city":"Comfort","county":"Kendall County","state":"TX","lat":29.96930639200005,"lon":-98.91254639829828,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase and revision of the Comfort Historic District in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas, a German-founded town established in 1854. It adds areas on the north, east, south and west of the original 1979 district, which covered about ten blocks.","why_significant":"The amendment extends the period of significance to 1954 and re-evaluates properties earlier called noncontributing or compatible. It argues the district shows Comfort's growth from an 1854 German settlement to a mid-20th-century agricultural trade center. It is nominated at the local level under Criterion A (Community Planning and Development) and Criterion C (Architecture).","narrative":"This listing enlarges the Comfort Historic District in Kendall County, Texas, a town founded by German immigrants in 1854. The original 1979 district covered ten core blocks. The amendment adds areas on all four sides and extends the period of significance to 1954, so that buildings from the 1930s through the early 1950s can count. The added area has 174 properties, including houses, a feed mill, a hatchery, a beer garden, a Turnverein, churches, two Mexican-American-owned groceries and the historic school campus. Early buildings used local cypress and limestone in log, fachwerk and board-and-batten construction. Later houses include Queen Anne, Folk Victorian L-plans, Craftsman bungalows and postwar Ranch and Minimal Traditional types. The district is considered locally significant for community development and architecture. It shows how an unincorporated town stayed stable, grew as an agricultural trade center and kept a low-density, largely intact historic character despite Highway 27 and the former rail line cutting through its grid.","period_of_significance":"1854-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Folk Victorian), Craftsman, Ranch, Moderne, Spanish Eclectic, Tudor, Minimal Traditional; vernacular L-plan and commercial block forms","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic properties are described as generally well maintained, with most retaining integrity; many buildings remain in domestic, commercial, school and religious use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.236927-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/9727/40972768/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/04000911.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000911/0dbbaff8a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000911/0dbbaff8a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ComfortTexas4.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ComfortTexas4.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002989","name":"Comfort Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/comfort-historic-district-79002989/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5151681"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/kendall-county/comfort-historic-district-boundary-increase-04000911/"}