{"nrhp_refnum":"05000238","name":"Limerick-Frazier House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"810 E. 13th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.275253770000063,"lon":-97.73097741899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-03-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame I-plan house at 810 East 13th Street in East Austin, Travis County, Texas, built in 1876 by stonemason Joseph Limerick, with later rear additions and a full-width gallery.","why_significant":"The house is tied to African American history in East Austin. From 1905 it was home to Professor John W. Frazier of Samuel Huston College, and by the 1930s it served as lodging for Black students and travelers excluded from white-owned hotels. It is also a good local example of a late 19th century I-plan house with an early 20th century full porch.","narrative":"Built in 1876 at 810 East 13th Street in Austin, this two-story frame house follows the I-plan, with a symmetrical south facade, double-hung wood windows, and two full-length galleries. Immigrant stonemason Joseph Limerick had it built, though he and his wife never lived in it. Later rear additions, completed by the 1930s, give the house an L-shape but are not visible from the street. John W. Frazier, a mathematics teacher and librarian at Samuel Huston College, bought the house in 1905. His wife, Laura Allman Frazier, later ran it as lodging for African American students and travelers who were turned away from white-owned hotels during the Jim Crow era. The house reflects the movement of Austin's Black population into East Austin in the early twentieth century. It is also valued as a well-preserved local example of a late nineteenth-century I-plan house, and it retains historic interior features such as brick fireplaces and carved mantels.","period_of_significance":"1876-1955","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER/I-plan","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as retaining a high level of integrity despite minor deterioration and alterations; currently used as a single dwelling and for civic/social purposes. Designated a City of Austin landmark in 1978.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.078914-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9703/40970350/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/05000238.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000238/c20b56b615-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000238/c20b56b615-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limerick_frazier_house_2011.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:Limerick_frazier_house_2011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970350","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002341"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/limerick-frazier-house-05000238/"}