{"nrhp_refnum":"12000788","name":"East Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"111, 113, 115, & 117 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pflugerville","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.442083514000046,"lon":-97.62014865499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small commercial historic district of four adjacent brick buildings at 111-117 East Main Street in the center of Pflugerville, Travis County, Texas, built between 1909 and about 1912 on narrow lots platted in 1904.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criterion A for community planning and development, reflecting the growth of a rural farming settlement into a commercial center after the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad arrived in 1904. It is also significant under Criterion C for architecture, as a collection of early 20th-century one- and two-story commercial buildings with Italian Renaissance and Mission Revival influences. The buildings are described as the most substantial surviving commercial properties of the period.","narrative":"Four brick commercial buildings at 111 to 117 East Main Street form the historic core of Pflugerville, a Texas town northeast of Austin. Built between 1909 and about 1912, they sit on narrow lots from the 1904 town plat laid out beside the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. The group includes a two-story former Farmers State Bank with arched limestone entrances, a two-story former hardware store, a single-story pharmacy with a curved Mission-style parapet, and a tall single-story mercantile that once served as a grocery and post office. Their facades mix brick, limestone and cast stone detailing drawing on Italian Renaissance and Mission Revival ideas. The district was recognized because the railroad turned a scattered farming community into a trading town, and these buildings are the best surviving evidence of that growth after fires destroyed other landmarks. Today they house a restaurant, bakery, gift shop and other businesses, and retain much of their original interior and exterior fabric.","period_of_significance":"1909-1912","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate; Other: 1-part commercial block","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"All four buildings are in commercial use, including a gift shop, bakery, restaurant, daycare and auction house, and are described as retaining a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.465985-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/9737/40973791/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/12000788.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000788/8cd31c7797-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000788/8cd31c7797-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pflugerville_historic_district_2012.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:Pflugerville_historic_district_2012.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973791","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999851"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/east-main-street-historic-district-12000788/"}