{"nrhp_refnum":"75001994","name":"Blake-Beaty-Orton House","other_names":["Orton Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jasper","county":"Jasper County","state":"TX","lat":30.919023090000053,"lon":-93.99965215099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Victorian frame house at 206 South Main Street in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas, built in the 1880s and owned by the City of Jasper at the time of the nomination.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of late nineteenth-century complex design, with contrasting shapes, textures, and solids and voids, and notes its daring portico. It is described as one of the last remaining 19th-century houses and the most impressive in Jasper. It is also tied to J. T. Beaty, a prominent local attorney and Texas state senator.","narrative":"Built in the 1880s on South Main Street in Jasper, this two-story Victorian house is made entirely of native pine and rests on piers of handmade brick. Its most striking feature is a tall entrance portico, a gable carried on two elongated Roman columns, which overlaps the more conventional one-story wraparound galleries with turned posts and brackets. An elaborate bargeboard with fan and floral cut-outs decorates the gables, and a half turret with a conical roof projects at the second level. Local claims place construction in the 1860s, when the Blake family, headed by a carpenter and cabinetmaker, owned the land, but no records support that, and the house more likely followed J. T. Beaty's purchase in 1888. Beaty was a Jasper attorney who served in the Texas Senate from 1901 to 1906. His daughter lived here until 1973, then gave the house to the city, which planned restoration. It is regarded as Jasper's most impressive surviving nineteenth-century home.","period_of_significance":"1880-1888","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne and Eastlake elements; described as a Victorian house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied at the time of nomination; the occupant lived there until 1973, and the house was then given to the City of Jasper, which planned to restore it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.693389-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/9726/40972659/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75001994.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972659","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107321367"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/jasper-county/blake-beaty-orton-house-75001994/"}