{"nrhp_refnum":"06001153","name":"McLean Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Railroad, Rowe, Second and Gray Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McLean","county":"Gray County","state":"TX","lat":35.232112252000036,"lon":-100.60100228599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial historic district in McLean, Gray County, Texas, covering parts of eight blocks along First, Commerce, North Main, Railroad and Rowe streets. It has 43 contributing and 4 noncontributing resources, built mostly between 1914 and 1954.","why_significant":"The district preserves a small Texas Panhandle railroad and cattle town's commercial core, with one-story brick storefronts on North Main Street and a notable group of gas stations, dealerships and repair shops tied to U.S. Route 66. It retains brick streets and both Route 66 alignments, and conveys the town's mid-20th-century automobile heritage.","narrative":"McLean's commercial district occupies parts of eight blocks in the downtown of a small Texas Panhandle town founded along the Rock Island Railroad. North Main Street holds mostly one-story brick storefronts built between 1914 and 1930, including the two-story 1914 O'Dell (Hindman) Hotel, the district's oldest building, and the 1936 Art Deco Avalon Theater, which keeps its original marquee and ticket booth. First and Railroad streets carry buildings from 1930 to 1954 that served motorists: gas stations, car dealerships and repair shops. Route 66 came through on First Street in 1926 and was split into two one-way alignments in 1952, until Interstate 40 bypassed the town in 1984. The gas stations show changing designs from the 1920s to the 1950s, including a ca. 1929 Phillips 66 station built in an English cottage form. Brick streets, both Route 66 roadbeds, an ice plant and a water tower also contribute. The district retains a strong sense of its mid-twentieth-century character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Style, Bungalow/Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Art Deco; 1-Part and 2-Part Commercial Block","criteria":[],"status_note":"Retains a high degree of integrity, with 40 of 44 buildings counted as contributing; current functions include business, specialty store, financial institution, theater and dwellings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.373528-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/9692/40969211/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/06001153.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001153/e7232b343d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001153/e7232b343d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Batterup55","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McLean_Commercial_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Batterup55</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:McLean_Commercial_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969211","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/gray-county/mclean-commercial-historic-district-06001153/"}