{"nrhp_refnum":"12000195","name":"Walker House","other_names":["The Treehouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3534 Miramar Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shoreacres","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.62105544800005,"lon":-95.00407184299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone single-family house at 3534 Miramar Drive in Shoreacres, Harris County, Texas, built circa 1932 by contractor Preston \"Jack\" R. Plumb Jr. for his in-laws, I.P. and Annie Walker, as a bayfront vacation home.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the oldest and most intact example of early bayside housing in Shoreacres and is designed in a higher style than neighboring historic homes. Its eclectic design blends Tudor Revival and French Chateau elements, and its porch columns are faux bois concrete pine trees in the style of sculptor Dionicio Rodriguez. It is the only known Harris County example where faux bois sculpture is incorporated into a building.","narrative":"Built around 1932 on the shore of Galveston Bay, this two-story stone house in Shoreacres, Texas, was constructed by Houston contractor Preston \"Jack\" Plumb Jr. as a vacation home for his in-laws, I.P. and Annie Walker. It is one of the few surviving original \"fish camps\" from the town's early years, when Houston families came for weekends of summer recreation. The design borrows freely from several styles, including Tudor Revival in the tapered chimney and French Chateau in the conical-roofed stair turret. Inside, a two-story Great Room is paneled in rare pecky cypress. The most distinctive feature is a set of four concrete porch columns shaped and tinted like pine trees, with a carved heart and a small squirrel holding a nut. They resemble the work of sculptor Dionicio Rodriguez, though the artist is unknown. The house is considered significant for its architecture and for its faux bois sculpture, and it remains a single-family home.","period_of_significance":"C. 1932","architect_builder":"Plumb, Preston.R \"Jack\" Jr., Builder/Contractor","architectural_style":"Other: Chateauesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is a single dwelling; the house retains good integrity, with additions only on secondary elevations, and the Great Room is in nearly original condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.466879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/9722/40972266/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/12000195.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000195/8b603f6860-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000195/8b603f6860-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jim Evans","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaiah_P._Walker_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Evans</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:Isaiah_P._Walker_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972266","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002730"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/walker-house-12000195/"}