{"nrhp_refnum":"70000774","name":"Pampell-Day House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"409 W. Alamo St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brenham","county":"Washington County","state":"TX","lat":30.16549656500007,"lon":-96.40268705099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Victorian frame house at 409 West Alamo Street in Brenham, Washington County, Texas, built in two stages: an older one-story rear section dating before 1844 and a front section added in 1875.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house's architecture: a Victorian frame cottage of a type common in New York but unusual for Texas, with ornament concentrated on the gables and a small porch. It also records the property's history from a colonial headright through early owner William Tom to T. J. Pampell, who enlarged the house in 1875.","narrative":"Brenham's house at 409 West Alamo Street grew in two stages. The older part, a one-story pine frame section built before 1844, now serves as the rear wing. In 1875 T. J. Pampell, a Saxony-born merchant who also ran a street-car system, added a two-story front section with a central hall on each floor and four rooms. The front is symmetrical, with horizontal siding, a gable roof with three front and three rear gables, barge boards, pendants and carpenter's lace, and a small one-story porch with turned balusters. The double front door has a stained glass transom. The nomination calls the style typical of the East and unusual for Texas. The land was once part of a headright granted to Arabella Harrington and later passed through William Tom, a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans. The Day family later changed little beyond enclosing the rear porch and adding a kitchen. It was a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1844, 1875)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian frame residence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered, on its original site; the form lists it as occupied and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.266569-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/9739/40973916/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/70000774.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000774/4c3ee179f0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000774/4c3ee179f0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pampell_day_house_brenham_2013.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:Pampell_day_house_brenham_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973916","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107317533"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/washington-county/pampell-day-house-70000774/"}