{"nrhp_refnum":"71001017","name":"Earle-Napier-Kinnard House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"814 S. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waco","county":"McLennan County","state":"TX","lat":31.578756444000078,"lon":-97.12282682799997,"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 symmetrical two-story brick late Greek Revival residence at 814 South 4th Street in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, with a one-story rear ell believed to be the original building from the 1850s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the fine late Greek Revival mansions of Texas. It is tied to John Baylis Earle, who built the original portion, and to John S. Napier, who completed the house. It later passed to the Rev. D. C. Kinnard, a Waco pastor, and was restored in 1959 and opened as a house museum.","narrative":"Located at 814 South 4th Street in Waco, this two-story brick house is a symmetrical late Greek Revival residence. Its five-bay front has a three-bay, two-story gallery with slender Ionic columns and wooden balustrades at both levels. Windows have six-over-six sashes and simple stone lintels. A one-story rear ell is believed to be the oldest part, built by John Baylis Earle, a Mississippi native who moved to Waco in 1855 and acquired the property in 1856. The Earles sold in 1866, and in 1868 the property passed to John S. Napier as trustee for his wife. Napier completed the house in its present form. In the 1870s it came to the Rev. D. C. Kinnard and his wife Sarah Napier Kinnard; he became the second pastor of Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Waco. After a 1959 restoration, the house was given in 1967 to the Waco Perpetual Growth Foundation and now serves as a house museum. It was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1968.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Baylis Earle (original portion); John S. Napier (completed the house)","architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and unaltered, on its original site; operated as a house museum by the Historic Waco Foundation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.641878-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/9729/40972981/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/71001017.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71001017/c2738e3a5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71001017/c2738e3a5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earle_napier_kinnard_house_2009.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:Earle_napier_kinnard_house_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972981","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107317676"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/mclennan-county/earle-napier-kinnard-house-71001017/"}