{"nrhp_refnum":"74002094","name":"Rogers, Edward H., Homestead","other_names":["41 Tv 294"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N of Austin off TX 1325","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.39818288200007,"lon":-97.72908007199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century farmstead site in Austin, Travis County, Texas, with a three-room stone house, log-crib barn, cisterns and related ruins, probably built around 1861 by Edward H. Rogers on land from his father's grant.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a good example of the small farmsteads once common around Austin, most of which have been destroyed or absorbed into larger holdings. Its stone dog trot house is described as architecturally unique. It also lay on the Bagdad Road, a principal road northwest from Austin, and apparently served as a watering stop for wagons.","narrative":"Located at the end of a ranch road off Kramer Lane in Austin, this farmstead centers on a three-room stone house arranged in a line, with an enclosed dog trot in the middle room. Nearby are a barn with two log cribs and four plank enclosures, two bottle-shaped cisterns, and the remains of a windmill and small outbuilding. The house keeps its original woodwork, metal roof and structural members. It was most probably built by Edward H. Rogers around his January 1861 marriage to Sallie A. Moss, on land from the grant of his father, James B. Rogers, an early Austin settler. Edward Rogers Jr. lived there until his death in 1937, and the house appears vacant since. The place is valued as an example of the small mid-century farms once common around Austin, for its unusual stone dog trot plan, and for its position on the Bagdad Road, a main route northwest where wagons likely stopped for water.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Most probably constructed by Edward H. Rogers","architectural_style":"Stone variation of the Texas dog trot cabin","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and the site is fenced; horses are kept on the property. The porch has collapsed and the windmill frame has fallen. The house appears to have been vacant since 1937.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.604158-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/9736/40973607/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/74002094.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973607","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000500"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/rogers-edward-h-homestead-74002094/"}