{"nrhp_refnum":"08000318","name":"Miller, Fannie Moss, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"900 Rio Grande St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.274741263000067,"lon":-97.74898967599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story wood-frame Queen Anne cottage at 900 Rio Grande Street in downtown Austin, Travis County, Texas, on a corner lot of about 0.3 acre. The form dates the house to 1898 and notes an earlier 1872 construction date and a related concrete block wall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house embodies the distinctive characteristics of late 19th-century Queen Anne architecture typical of Austin, under Criterion C at the local level. It cites the multi-gabled roof, asymmetrical bays with shingled gables, turned balusters, spindle friezes and decorative eave braces, along with a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Set on a corner lot two blocks south and five blocks west of the Texas Capitol, this one-story Queen Anne house at 900 Rio Grande Street in Austin is a surviving example of the frame cottages once common in the city's western neighborhoods. The form dates it to 1898, when Fannie Moss Miller, widow of a physician from LaGrange, bought the property from the Campbell family, who had built a home there in the early 1870s. The white clapboard house has a metal roof, a dominant front gable, lower cross gables with fish scale shingles, and a porch with turned spindle railings and a spindlework frieze. Inside are high ceilings, paneled doors, fluted surrounds and a double-sided fireplace. A concrete block wall cast to resemble cut stone surrounds the lot. Later owners adapted the building for offices, and it now houses a tea shop. It was listed for its architecture, at the local level of significance.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in commercial use as a tea shop and headquarters of the Tea Embassy; the form describes the exterior as well maintained and the interior as restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.154801-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/9736/40973663/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/08000318.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000318/aa08f57287-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000318/aa08f57287-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fannie_miller_house_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fannie_miller_house_2011.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010021","name":"West Downtown Austin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/west-downtown-austin-historic-district-100010021/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973663","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002658"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/miller-fannie-moss-house-08000318/"}