{"nrhp_refnum":"05000240","name":"Leuda-May Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"301-311 W. Leuda and 805-807 May Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.73725529700005,"lon":-97.32918550699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-03-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district of five contributing buildings (three apartment buildings and two garage/apartments) at 301-311 W. Leuda and 805-807 May streets, about 3/4 mile south of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, built between c. 1923 and 1936.","why_significant":"The buildings are intact examples of 1920s-30s apartment construction in Fort Worth's South Side, in vernacular Italian Renaissance Revival, Prairie School and Colonial Revival/Bungalow designs. They were built on a subdivided block that once held a large late 19th-century house, and two used salvaged material from it. The nomination treats the group as locally significant.","narrative":"Five early twentieth-century residential buildings make up this small district just south of downtown Fort Worth, on the northern end of a subdivided city block facing West Leuda and May streets. Three are two-story apartment buildings and two are garage/apartments, all built between about 1923 and 1936. The apartment designs are vernacular: 301 W. Leuda interprets Italian Renaissance Revival, Roseland Apartments at 311 W. Leuda shows Prairie School influence, and 805 May Street blends Colonial Revival and Bungalow features. The garage/apartments have no distinctive style. The block was once the grounds of a large late nineteenth-century house, and 301 W. Leuda, built in 1936 by Pirl Steagall, incorporated salvaged material believed to come from it, which makes each of its apartments distinct. In 1922 the landowners subdivided the block into lots, and their deeds required apartments or dwellings of minimum cost. Much of the surrounding neighborhood has lost historic buildings, but these rehabilitated apartments retain a high degree of integrity and remain in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Pirl Steagall (aka R.E. Steagall) built 301 W. Leuda Street in 1936; A.C. Barber is named as a builder/lienholder for other work in the subdivision.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Prairie School; no style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Recently rehabilitated apartment buildings in continued residential use; they retain a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.533941-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/9735/40973522/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/05000240.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000240/151b5bf491-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000240/151b5bf491-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LuedaMay1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LuedaMay1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973522","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuda%E2%80%93May_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6534473"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/leuda-may-historic-district-05000240/"}