{"nrhp_refnum":"78003317","name":"Brooks, Jennie, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1009 Walnut","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bastrop","county":"Bastrop County","state":"TX","lat":30.108356704000073,"lon":-97.31612339599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A vernacular Greek Revival board-and-batten residence at 1009 Walnut Street, at the southwest corner of Walnut and Hill Streets in Bastrop, Texas, built about 1890.","why_significant":"Jennie Brooks, an early Bastrop settler, was the daughter of a slave and was probably the slave of Gus Hubbard. She bought the lot and built the house around 1890. It is described as one of the oldest houses in Bastrop built by a Black family.","narrative":"Built around 1890 at the southwest corner of Walnut and Hill Streets in Bastrop, this modest residence reflects the vernacular Greek Revival tradition. It is a five-bay, symmetrical house with board-and-batten walls, a central door flanked by two windows on each side, a rear ell, a tin gable roof and an end-wall chimney. A gallery was later removed, and the house was recorded in fair condition and still in residential use. Its importance lies in the story of its builder. Jennie Brooks, an early Bastrop settler, was the daughter of a slave and was probably the slave of Gus Hubbard. She bought the lot and built the house herself. It is considered one of the oldest houses in Bastrop built by a Black family. Her daughters were skilled musicians, and her son ran a cafe, giving the house a place in the local Black community's history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; condition fair; the gallery has been removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.240709-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/9681/40968149/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/78003317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003317/edf7ab1451-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003317/edf7ab1451-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jennie_Brooks_House,_Bastrop,_Texas.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">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:Jennie_Brooks_House,_Bastrop,_Texas.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968149","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001484"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bastrop-county/brooks-jennie-house-78003317/"}