{"nrhp_refnum":"73001971","name":"Fort Stockton Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E edge of town","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Stockton","county":"Pecos County","state":"TX","lat":30.88778748550007,"lon":-102.87613146181211,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Fort Stockton, Pecos County, Texas, covering about 75 acres around Comanche Springs. It includes remains of the 1850s-1880s Army post, an old fort cemetery, and early town buildings, plus a 2002 amendment adding the 1901 Achterberg House.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an excellent example of a frontier settlement that grew up beside a military outpost, with surviving parts of both fort and town. It reflects the frontier history of the trans-Pecos region, including the fort's role protecting the San Antonio-San Diego stage line and its brief link to the Army camel experiment.","narrative":"Fort Stockton's historic district gathers the surviving pieces of an Army post and the frontier town that grew beside it at Comanche Springs, the third largest springs in Texas. The fort was first established in 1858, abandoned to Confederate forces, and rebuilt from 1868 until the Army left in 1886. What remains includes three adobe officers' quarters, a limestone guardhouse dated 1868, stone barracks foundations and the old fort cemetery. Town buildings include the Koehler store, the Grey Mule Saloon, the John Young store, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church of 1896, and the Annie Riggs Hotel of 1900, now a museum. The district was recognised because fort and town survive side by side, showing how a frontier settlement developed at a military outpost. A later amendment added the Achterberg House, an adobe house begun in 1901 and enlarged over several decades, as a contributing building.","period_of_significance":"1858-1886","architect_builder":"Lieut. J. L. Humfreville (guardhouse, 1868); J. Fred Achterberg (Achterberg House)","architectural_style":"Adobe and stone frontier military and commercial buildings, with Victorian elements; Mexican vernacular for the Achterberg House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Annie Riggs Hotel is now a local museum; the Achterberg House was rehabilitated in 2001 and is in excellent structural condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.862322-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/9731/40973167/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/73001971.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001971/25638f6968-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001971/25638f6968-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Pi3.124","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Riggs_Memorial_Museum.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi3.124</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Riggs_Memorial_Museum.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973167","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Stockton_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54871450"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/pecos-county/fort-stockton-historic-district-73001971/"}