{"nrhp_refnum":"71000919","name":"Allen-Bell House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1408 Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bastrop","county":"Bastrop County","state":"TX","lat":30.115213319000077,"lon":-97.32193956699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame house at 1408 Church Street in Bastrop, Texas, built between 1850 and 1859 in the late Greek Revival style, with a one-room outbuilding to the southwest.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a well-proportioned late Greek Revival house with unusual vertical board-and-batten sheathing, the battens joined at top and bottom by arch-like cuts in the fascia. It is also tied to the Bastrop Military Academy, since Major R. D. Allen, the academy's commandant, lived there from 1859 to 1866. Later it belonged to Henry N. Bell, a long-serving Bastrop County sheriff.","narrative":"Built between 1850 and 1859 at 1408 Church Street in Bastrop, this one-story frame house is a late Greek Revival design with an unusual surface treatment. Its walls are covered in vertical board and batten, with arch-like cuts in the fascia joining the battens at top and bottom. The east front has a central entrance under a portico carried on four square columns, with double doors, sidelights and a transom. Windows are nine-over-nine, and the hipped roof is covered with tin shingles. The house began as an L-shaped building and became U-shaped when a rear wing, once a barracks of the Bastrop Military Academy, was added. The house was occupied by 1859 by Major R. D. Allen, commandant of the academy, until 1866. In 1886 it was acquired by Henry N. Bell, a noted sheriff who served Bastrop County for more than twenty-one years. It remains a private residence.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date c.1855)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, altered, on its original site, and in use 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 02:54:19.236639-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/9679/40967987/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/71000919.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000919/cc9a3dce42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000919/cc9a3dce42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allen-Bell_House,_Bastrop,_Texas.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allen-Bell_House,_Bastrop,_Texas.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40967987","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001536"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bastrop-county/allen-bell-house-71000919/"}