{"nrhp_refnum":"07000130","name":"Monroe Shops","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2111 S. Corinth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.72432746900006,"lon":-96.80455218999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Monroe Shops is a large brick railroad maintenance facility at 2111 South Corinth Street in Dallas, Texas, on a 7.5-acre parcel. The first phase was completed in 1914 for the Texas Traction Company and Southern Traction Company, and an eastern bay was added around 1920.","why_significant":"The building served as the site of all heavy repair work on the cars of the Texas Electric Railway, the interurban system formed by merger in 1917. It was used extensively by the railway, including re-lettering cars and converting passenger cars into parlor cars. The main building survives intact while the original ancillary structures were demolished, and the site remains a transportation facility.","narrative":"Monroe Shops is a large industrial building in Dallas that once handled heavy repairs for electric interurban rail cars. Completed in its first phase in 1914, it served the Texas Traction Company and the Southern Traction Company, which merged in 1917 to form the Texas Electric Railway. The load-bearing brick building has three bays covering 255 by 138 feet. The two-story western bay housed paint and carpenter shops, offices, and a lecture hall. The central bay was the machine shop, with a crane, a maintenance pit, and Warren and Pratt roof trusses that survive. A one-story paint shop was added on the east around 1920. Its water tower, substation, and other support structures have been demolished. Windows, doors, and roofing have been replaced in many places, and a mezzanine was inserted in the 1990s. The building now stands beside a DART station, so the site continues in transportation use, and the property is recognized for its role in the region's interurban rail history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style (industrial/utilitarian)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently listed as vacant; the site sits within a DART park-and-ride facility and the building has been rehabilitated with later alterations, including a mezzanine added in the mid- to late-1990s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.728385-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/9717/40971777/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/07000130.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971777","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002652"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/monroe-shops-07000130/"}