{"nrhp_refnum":"05000242","name":"Simms House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"906 Mariposa Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.243041774000062,"lon":-97.74415320499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-03-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story residence at 906 Mariposa Drive in the Travis Heights neighborhood of south Austin, Texas, with a rough-cut limestone lower floor containing a five-bay garage and an Elgin-Butler brick upper floor. The description gives 1934 as the build date, and the significance section gives 1935.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C in the area of architecture at the local level. Its integrated five-bay garage shows how the automobile reshaped American and Austin residential architecture in the early 20th century. The house is also described as a local interpretation of Colonial Revival design that has kept a high level of integrity.","narrative":"Set into a hillside on Mariposa Drive in Austin's Travis Heights neighborhood, this two-story house combines a lower floor of rough-cut limestone with an upper floor of Elgin-Butler brick. Its most unusual feature is a five-bay garage across the ground level, behind five contiguous garage doors and framed by limestone half-columns. The upper floor holds the living space and is recessed to form a long flagstone patio. Architect Roger Q. Small designed the house, which dates to 1934-1935. The Simms family had first planned rental apartments on the property, and the multi-bay garage would have housed boarders' vehicles, though that project was never built. The nomination presents the house as a local version of Colonial Revival style and as an early sign of how the automobile changed American residential design. It has been recognized for architecture at the local level. Changes are limited, including replaced garage doors, a small rear brick addition and added interior drywall, and original floors, windows and bathroom tile remain.","period_of_significance":"1935","architect_builder":"Small, Roger Q.; Schmidt, Richard","architectural_style":"Other: Minimal Traditional","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is single dwelling, the same as its historic function.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.896485-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/9736/40973654/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/05000242.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000242/6614e5a185-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000242/6614e5a185-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simms_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:Simms_house_2011.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006796","name":"Travis Heights-Fairview Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/travis-heights-fairview-park-historic-district-100006796/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973654","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/simms-house-05000242/"}