{"nrhp_refnum":"74002097","name":"Houston, Sam, House","other_names":["Woodland"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Ave. L, Sam Houston State University","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntsville","county":"Walker County","state":"TX","lat":30.715187415500054,"lon":-95.55285529254067,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-30","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1974-05-30","areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"\"Woodland,\" the Sam Houston House, is a log and clapboard cottage with outbuildings on Avenue L at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Houston acquired and enlarged it in 1847. It is state-owned and open to the public.","why_significant":"The house was Sam Houston's residence from 1847 to 1859, a pivotal period when he served as U.S. Senator and was elected Governor of Texas. It also served as his law office and refuge from secession-era politics. The nomination presents it as a typical Texas hill country cottage of clapboard over logs.","narrative":"Woodland is a modest log house in Huntsville, Texas, that Sam Houston acquired and expanded in 1847. It began as a small log cabin with a mud-and-stick chimney. Houston added a second log room, an open dog-trot hallway and a front porch, then enlarged it the next spring with upstairs bedrooms, an enclosed staircase, a summer dining loggia and a rear portico with four square columns. Clapboard siding was later applied over the logs. Two log outbuildings stand nearby: a reconstructed kitchen and a restored building that served as Houston's law office. Houston lived here until 1859, during his Senate years and his election as Governor. He used the place as a refuge from the secession disputes in Washington and Austin, and he was removed from office after refusing to recognize the secession convention. The house is now state-owned, open to the public and set within a surrounding park that echoes his original estate.","period_of_significance":"1847-1859","architect_builder":"Sam Houston","architectural_style":"Texas hill country cottage, clapboard over logs, dog-trot plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and altered, on its original site; state-owned, occupied and open to the public as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.032779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/9709/40970968/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/74002097_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002097/2035b5e577-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002097/2035b5e577-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pma03","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodland_(Sam_Houston%27s_Home)_in_Huntsville,_Texas.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pma03</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:Woodland_(Sam_Houston%27s_Home)_in_Huntsville,_Texas.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970968","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_(Huntsville,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/walker-county/houston-sam-house-74002097/"}