{"nrhp_refnum":"06000508","name":"San Augustine Residential Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly surrounding TX 147, TX 3230 and TX 2213","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Augustine","county":"San Augustine County","state":"TX","lat":31.524913877000046,"lon":-94.10934789457761,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 260 acres wrapping around the east and south sides of the courthouse square in San Augustine, Texas. It contains 407 resources dating from the 1830s to about 1960, laid out on the 1833 town plat grid.","why_significant":"The district shows San Augustine's growth from a pioneer settlement of the Texas Republic era into a middle and upper income neighborhood after the railroad arrived in 1901. It combines a grid street pattern with informal rural-style parcels. Its 122-year span includes rare early Republic-era houses alongside early 20th century revival and Craftsman homes and post-war Ranch houses.","narrative":"This residential district in San Augustine, Texas, curves around the east and south sides of the courthouse square and covers roughly 260 acres. Its street grid follows the 1833 town plat, and the oldest resource is the city cemetery from about 1835. Several late 1830s Greek Revival houses survive, including the Ezekiel Cullen, Matthew Cartwright and Stephen W. Blount houses, all tied to builder Augustus Phelps. Little was built between 1865 and 1901, but the arrival of the railroad in 1901 brought a building boom. Most of the 407 resources are modest and mid-sized houses from about 1901 to 1960, in Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and later Ranch styles, with garages, barns, churches and a Depression-era stone bridge headwall. Fallow farmland at the south end reflects the area's agricultural past. The district is significant for showing, across 122 years, how a Texas Republic town grew into a varied residential neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Augustus Phelps (builder/architect of the Cullen, Cartwright and Blount houses); Sidney A. Sweet; local builders James C. Anderson and John Patrick (Pat) Smith","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Classical Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Queen Anne; Greek Revival; Spanish Colonial Revival; Dutch Colonial Revival; Minimal Traditional; Ranch; Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most properties are in good to fair condition; 243 of 407 resources are contributing. Some parcels are vacant or fallow agricultural land.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.38704-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/9733/40973314/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/06000508.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973314","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999824"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/san-augustine-county/san-augustine-residential-historic-district-06000508/"}