{"nrhp_refnum":"75002003","name":"Wharton-Scott House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1509 Pennsylvania Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.737973630000056,"lon":-97.34253290799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick Georgian Revival mansion at 1509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1906 for Electra Waggoner, with a carriage house, tea house and overgrown grounds on a 1.5-acre lot.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of the Georgian Revival style as interpreted in the Southwest by the firm Sanguinet and Staats. It was built for the daughter of cattle baron W. T. Waggoner and later owned by wealthy cattleman and land speculator Winfield Scott and his widow. Its plan, interiors and detailing remain largely intact.","narrative":"Built in 1906 on a hilltop in Fort Worth's former \"Quality Hill\" neighborhood, this red brick mansion at 1509 Pennsylvania Avenue was designed by Sanguinet and Staats for Electra Waggoner, daughter of cattle baron W. T. Waggoner. It is described as one of the finest Georgian Revival houses in Texas, with Flemish bond brickwork, Indiana sandstone trim, a two-story portico, a green glazed terra-cotta tile gambrel roof and 18 rooms. Inside are a grand oak staircase, coffered ceilings, a third-floor ballroom and a music room. Winfield Scott bought the house in 1911 and died that year; his widow lived there until 1938, and her grounds won repeated \"Yard Beautiful\" awards. The Girls Service League then used it as a boarding house until the late 1960s. Since then it has stood vacant, its grounds overgrown, while local preservationists have tried to raise money to buy and restore it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Sanguinet and Staats","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good. Used as a boarding house for homeless girls from 1938 to the late 1960s, then left vacant and unattended. Grounds are overgrown, the property is rezoned for commercial high-rise and for sale, and a local committee is raising funds to buy it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.144529-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/9734/40973474/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75002003.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002003/eb168ec575-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002003/eb168ec575-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_House2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Scott_House2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973474","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton%E2%80%93Scott_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7990696"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/wharton-scott-house-75002003/"}