{"nrhp_refnum":"76002066","name":"Goodman-LeGrand House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"624 N. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tyler","county":"Smith County","state":"TX","lat":32.35672414100003,"lon":-95.30158889699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame house at 624 North Broadway in Tyler, Smith County, Texas, begun in 1859 as a four-room Greek Revival cottage built by Samuel Gallatin Smith and later enlarged in 1880 and 1924.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a unique and architecturally ambitious classical Revival mansion that evolved from an antebellum cottage through a Victorian phase into its present form. It was the home of Dr. Samuel Goodman, a local physician and early railroad investor, and later became a center of Tyler's social and cultural life. It also holds one of the most sophisticated Victorian painted ceilings in Texas.","narrative":"Set on a nine-acre wooded tract at 624 North Broadway in Tyler, this wood frame house grew in three stages over about sixty-five years. Samuel Gallatin Smith built a four-room Greek Revival cottage called Bonnie Castle in 1859. Dr. Samuel Goodman, a physician and early investor in the Tyler Tap Railroad, bought it in 1866. His son William added a second story and double galleries in 1880, and commissioned a painted parlor ceiling by an itinerant artist that is described as one of the most sophisticated Victorian painted interiors in Texas. In 1924 Sallie Goodman LeGrand and her husband James rebuilt the house with semi-circular Roman Doric porticos, a porte-cochere and added rooms, removing much of the Victorian detail. The family hosted charity events and Tyler Rose Festival activities. Sallie LeGrand left the property to the City of Tyler in 1940, and it now serves as a museum and public park.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Gallatin Smith","architectural_style":"Greek Revival cottage evolved into a vernacular classical Revival mansion (with Georgian Revival elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In good condition; owned by the City of Tyler since 1940 and open to the public seven days a week as a museum and park, with a portion of the second floor used as an apartment for a resident hostess.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.726196-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/9733/40973345/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/76002066.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002066/c67d7bc556-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002066/c67d7bc556-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goodman%E2%80%93LeGrand_House_March_2019_03.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Barera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goodman%E2%80%93LeGrand_House_March_2019_03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973345","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodman%E2%80%93LeGrand_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5583442"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/smith-county/goodman-legrand-house-76002066/"}