{"nrhp_refnum":"05000863","name":"McCardell, William Keenan and Nancy Elizabeth, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"705 N. Beatty","address_restricted":false,"city":"Livingston","county":"Polk County","state":"TX","lat":30.713738482000053,"lon":-94.94024981499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story cypress Queen Anne house at 705 North Beatty in Livingston, Polk County, Texas, built in 1887 as the home and medical office of Dr. William Keenan McCardell.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved local example of Queen Anne architecture (Criterion C). It also claims significance in health and medicine (Criterion A), because it was designed as Dr. McCardell's home and office and served the community's medical needs. The house retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1887 at 705 North Beatty in Livingston, Texas, this one-and-a-half story cypress house served as both the family residence and medical office of Dr. William Keenan McCardell. It features a hexagonal front room, a wraparound porch with turned columns and fretwork, shiplap siding, decorative shingles in the gables and a cross-gabled roof. A separate front-room entrance let patients be seen privately, and the original medical sink and towel rack survived into the 1990s. Local tradition says the cypress boards came from a riverboat, though the form says this cannot be documented. Dr. McCardell followed his uncle into medicine, and the family stayed in the house until 1997. A restoration in the 1990s kept most original fabric, with changes limited mainly to the chimney, the roof material and an enclosed back porch. A stone-lined cistern also survives on the grounds. The house is recognized as a good local example of Queen Anne architecture and as a site tied to community health care.","period_of_significance":"1887-1928","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in the 1990s and currently used as a single dwelling; the form says it was opened as a Victorian-era bed and breakfast after the 1997 purchase.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.330464-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/71/9731/40973171/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/05000863.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000863/9fce5e81cf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000863/9fce5e81cf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILLIAM_KEENAN_AND_NANCY_ELIZABETH_MCCARDELL_HOUSE,_LIVINGSTON,_POLK_COUNTY,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:WILLIAM_KEENAN_AND_NANCY_ELIZABETH_MCCARDELL_HOUSE,_LIVINGSTON,_POLK_COUNTY,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973171","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002746"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/polk-county/mccardell-william-keenan-and-nancy-elizabeth-house-05000863/"}