{"nrhp_refnum":"76002054","name":"Britton-Evans House","other_names":["Centennial House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"411 N. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Corpus Christi","county":"Nueces County","state":"TX","lat":27.79355372300006,"lon":-97.39671702099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story shell-brick Greek Revival house at 411 N. Broadway in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, built in 1849-50 for Forbes Britton and also known as Centennial House.","why_significant":"It is a good example of early Texas Greek Revival architecture and is the oldest surviving residence in Corpus Christi. It is also tied to Forbes Britton, an early settler and state legislator, and to George F. Evans, a merchant and mayor who owned it for 56 years.","narrative":"Built in 1849-50 on the bluff above Corpus Christi Bay, this two-story house at 411 N. Broadway is the city's oldest surviving residence. It is made of shell brick, a mix of slaked oyster shell and sand typical of the Texas coast then, covered in plaster scored to look like stone. A double gallery with six square columns spans the front, and a low hipped roof covers the building. The house was built for Forbes Britton, a former army officer, shipping partner, rancher and state legislator who wrote the Texas militia law. It later served as a Confederate and then Federal hospital during the Civil War. George F. Evans, a merchant and mayor, bought it in 1880, and his family kept it for 56 years. Southern Minerals converted it to offices in 1936. The city renamed it Centennial House in 1949, and the Corpus Christi Area Heritage Society restored it as a museum in the late 1960s.","period_of_significance":"1849-50","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored as a house museum in the late 1960s by the Corpus Christi Area Heritage Society; condition listed as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.152505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/9731/40973120/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/76002054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002054/a021c11fdb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002054/a021c11fdb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centennial_House_Corpus_Christi_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:25or6to4</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:Centennial_House_Corpus_Christi_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973120","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107318729"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/nueces-county/britton-evans-house-76002054/"}