{"nrhp_refnum":"07000269","name":"San Augustine Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Main St., Montgomery St., Congress St., Broadway, Columbia St., property lines and Golden Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Augustine","county":"San Augustine County","state":"TX","lat":31.53007297100004,"lon":-94.11056069962301,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of about 14.2 acres in central San Augustine, Texas, surrounding the courthouse square within the original 1833 mile-square town plat. It holds 45 contributing and 26 noncontributing resources, mostly built between 1889 and 1941.","why_significant":"The district shows how San Augustine's downtown grew after a major 1890 fire and especially after the railroad arrived in 1901, which brought a building boom that lasted into the 1920s. It keeps the 1833 street grid and a mix of Romanesque Revival, Georgian Revival, Art Deco, Art Moderne and International style buildings. It also includes institutional landmarks such as the 1927 courthouse and the 1941 WPA-built city hall.","narrative":"San Augustine's commercial core is a 14.2-acre district of 71 resources centered on the courthouse square in East Texas. It sits inside the mile-square town plat laid out in 1833, and the original street grid is the oldest surviving feature. The oldest building is the three-story Romanesque Revival Hollis Building of 1889, the only structure on Columbia Street to survive an 1890 fire. Most of the district followed the arrival of the railroad in 1901, which turned the town into a shipping point for lumber and farm products and sparked a building boom lasting into the 1920s. Typical buildings are small one-story brick commercial blocks built by local craftsmen. Landmarks include the 1927 Georgian Revival courthouse designed by T. Shirley Simons, Sr., the 1893 jail, the 1910 Masonic Hall, a circa 1938 bus station, the 1940 Art Moderne Knight Parker Building and the 1941 WPA-built city hall. A stretch of the Old San Antonio Road runs through it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"T. Shirley Simons, Sr. (1927 courthouse); Raiford Stripling (1976 jail conversion); most buildings by local carpenters and contractors","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial, Georgian, Romanesque, Greek, Classical, Spanish Colonial); Modern Movement (Art Moderne, Art Deco, International Style)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most properties are in good to fair condition; the district retains a high degree of integrity. Current uses include retail, banks, a theater, offices, the county courthouse and a lodge.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.474576-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/9733/40973312/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/07000269.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06000508","name":"San Augustine Residential Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/san-augustine-residential-historic-district-06000508/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973312","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/san-augustine-county/san-augustine-commercial-historic-district-07000269/"}