{"nrhp_refnum":"76002010","name":"Cavitt House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"713 E. 30th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bryan","county":"Brazos County","state":"TX","lat":30.666360375000068,"lon":-96.36746667899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stuccoed brick Italianate house at 713 East 30th Street in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, completed around 1875 as the home of local financier and landowner William R. Cavitt.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Bryan's oldest residential structure and the only local example of the Italianate style. It is unusually restrained for its style and date, and it remained in the builder's family with few alterations. It also represents the earliest group of substantial buildings in Bryan.","narrative":"This two-story stuccoed brick house at 713 East 30th Street in Bryan, Texas, was completed around 1875 for William R. Cavitt, a Brazos County landowner and financier. Cavitt bought the city block in January 1875 and brought his bride to the finished house that October. The L-shaped building has load-bearing brick walls, deeply inset double galleries with square wooden columns, a bay window, paired windows under stilted segmental arches, and a one-story kitchen ell. A T-shaped captain's walk links the two hipped roofs. It is described as Bryan's oldest residence and the only local Italianate example, though it lacks the deep bracketed cornices, corner tower and elaborate millwork common to the style. The Cavitt family kept ownership and most original furnishings, and few major changes were made. Because much of Bryan was rebuilt after Reconstruction, the house represents the city's earliest substantial buildings. It had been vacant since 1971, when the owners entered a nursing facility.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and maintained by the Cavitt family, but vacant since the owners entered a nursing facility in 1971.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.060735-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/9713/40971369/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/76002010.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002010/f198b68d82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002010/f198b68d82-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cavitt_House_Bryan_Texas_2018.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:Cavitt_House_Bryan_Texas_2018.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001613","name":"East Side Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/east-side-historic-district-87001613/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971369","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000482"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/brazos-county/cavitt-house-76002010/"}