{"nrhp_refnum":"75001945","name":"Fulton, George W., Mansion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Fulton Beach Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fulton","county":"Aransas County","state":"TX","lat":28.058179092000046,"lon":-97.03577984099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story Second Empire frame mansion on Fulton Beach Road in Fulton, Aransas County, Texas, overlooking Aransas Bay. It was built 1872-75 from plans by its owner, George Ware Fulton.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving Victorian mansion on this part of the Texas coast. It incorporated many of Fulton's own inventions and construction techniques, including independent water systems, central heating and gas lighting. It is also tied to Fulton, an entrepreneur who founded the town and promoted cattle, meatpacking and harbor development.","narrative":"Overlooking Aransas Bay in the town of Fulton, Texas, this four-story Second Empire mansion was built between 1872 and 1875 for George Ware Fulton, who drew the plans himself. A contractor from New Orleans, George Purvis, brought craftsmen to carry out the work. The house has a concrete basement, wood walls of stacked pine planks covered in cypress siding, a mansard roof and a turret that served as an observation point over the bay. Fulton designed four separate water systems, a forced-air heating arrangement, gas-lit chandeliers fed by a carbide plant, and interiors with Italian tile, walnut trim and ebony mantels. A hidden room was built to store cash. Fulton was a surveyor, engineer, cattleman and promoter who founded the town and backed meatpacking and harbor ventures. The house is valued as an unusual coastal Victorian that survived a century of salt air and hurricanes, and as a showpiece of its builder's ambitions.","period_of_significance":"1872-1875","architect_builder":"George W. Fulton (designer); George Purvis (builder/contractor)","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied on the form; a later reviewer note says the site appears to be a trailer park today, and a data sheet lists its function as commercial space/not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.469666-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/9710/40971001/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75001945.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001945/81d486d837-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001945/81d486d837-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fulton_Mansion_Texas_2024.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:Fulton_Mansion_Texas_2024.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Mansion_Historical_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5545615"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/aransas-county/fulton-george-w-mansion-75001945/"}