{"nrhp_refnum":"71000920","name":"Hill, Abraham Wiley, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5 mi. SW of Hills Prairie","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hills Prairie","county":"Bastrop County","state":"TX","lat":30.048266457000068,"lon":-97.30861198199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-03-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Greek Revival plantation house about five miles southwest of Hills Prairie in Bastrop County, Texas, built in the 1850s (dated 1855) by Abraham Wiley Hill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is among the finest mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival houses in Texas, citing its thin columns, vertical proportions and full-width two-story hexastyle gallery. Its builder, a veteran of the Texas Revolution who scouted for Sam Houston's army and was at San Jacinto, was not considered an outstanding historic figure.","narrative":"Set among large live oaks inside an iron-fenced lot in rural Bastrop County, this two-story frame house was built by Abraham Wiley Hill in the 1850s as his family's plantation home. Its gable roof and full-width, two-story hexastyle gallery are inset beneath the roofline, and slender square columns, fluted corner pilasters and a plain entablature give it a strong vertical emphasis. The eight-room central-hall plan is sheathed in narrow clapboards, and a plain one-story service ell extends from the rear. A family cemetery lies southeast of the house. Hill, born in Georgia in 1816, came to Texas in 1835, served in the 1836 war for independence and scouted for Sam Houston's army. The house is considered among the finest mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival houses in Texas, valued for its architecture rather than its builder's fame. It remained in the Hill family line for generations, and was boarded up and unoccupied when documented, in fair condition.","period_of_significance":"1855","architect_builder":"Abraham Wiley Hill (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in fair condition, boarded up and unoccupied for a number of years.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.014488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/9710/40971030/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/71000920.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971030","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001401"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bastrop-county/hill-abraham-wiley-house-71000920/"}