{"nrhp_refnum":"75002004","name":"Caswell, Daniel H. and William T., Houses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1404 and 1502 West Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.279348423000044,"lon":-97.74766293199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two stone houses at 1404 and 1502 West Avenue in Austin, Travis County, Texas, built in 1900 and 1906 by the Caswell family. They face each other across 15th Street at the top of a hill.","why_significant":"The houses are tied to the Caswell family, prominent in Austin's cotton industry and in the city's recreational planning. They are also visually linked, framing the corner of 15th Street and West Avenue. Daniel H. Caswell's house is Chateauesque and Will T. Caswell's is Classical in style. The form also notes that Judge John Edward Hickman rented an upstairs unit in the 1930s.","narrative":"Two limestone houses face each other across 15th Street at West Avenue in Austin, on the crest of a hill at the edge of the original northwest city boundary. The D.H. Caswell house, built about 1900, is a two-and-a-half-story Chateauesque residence with a round turret, a conical roof, a patterned slate roof and a two-story gallery. The W.T. Caswell house, built in 1906, is a Classical two-story house with a double gallery, composite columns and a lively roofline of gables and dormers. Both were built by the Caswell family, prominent in Austin's cotton industry. Daniel Caswell founded a cottonseed oil mill in 1890. His son Will became a businessman and civic leader who promoted parks, athletics and recreation in Austin. A third Caswell house between the two was demolished in 1966 to extend 15th Street. The D.H. Caswell house is now city-owned and awaits restoration.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Chateauesque (D.H. Caswell House); Classical (W.T. Caswell House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The D.H. Caswell house is city-owned and rented as a duplex, with its slate roof and cresting deteriorating and restoration planned. The W.T. Caswell house is a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.647667-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/9737/40973719/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75002004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002004/f27aa609ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002004/f27aa609ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"David E Hollingsworth","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_H._Caswell_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David E Hollingsworth</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Daniel_H._Caswell_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973719","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_H._and_William_T._Caswell_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5217391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/caswell-daniel-h-and-william-t-houses-75002004/"}