{"nrhp_refnum":"79000565","name":"Hyde House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"500 S. Court St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Visalia","county":"Tulare County","state":"CA","lat":36.325925555000026,"lon":-119.29205105999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and wood-frame Queen Anne style residence at 500 S. Court Street in Visalia, Tulare County, California, built in 1886 by E. O. Miller.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally unique in Visalia, an unusual Victorian interpretation of Queen Anne and Tudor-Medieval design using mixed materials and textures. It is also tied to builder E. O. Miller and financier Richard E. Hyde, two figures important to the town's early development as a regional trade and supply center.","narrative":"Built in 1886 by E. O. Miller, this two-story residence at 500 S. Court Street in Visalia combines a brick first floor with a wood-frame upper story and attic. Its design follows the Queen Anne style, with a half-timbered front gable, novelty shingles in fish-scale and overlapped patterns, intersecting gable roofs, and a porch railing reminiscent of Chinese Chippendale furniture. Inside, a staircase repeats the railing design, and two parlors have fireplaces with Edwardian or Federal mantels. The house was bought by the Richard E. Hyde family soon after it was built. Miller was a prominent county builder and officeholder, and Hyde, who arrived in Visalia in 1860, was a leading financier who helped establish the town as a regional trade center. The nomination presents the house as unique in Visalia and as the focus of an older residential neighborhood. At the time of listing it was city-owned, unoccupied and deteriorated, with restoration planned.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"E. O. Miller, builder","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as deteriorated but structurally sound, with some smoke damage from a small electrical fire; owned by the City of Visalia, with full restoration planned and a nonprofit formed to raise restoration funds.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.752573-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79000565.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000565/a023e7314a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000565/a023e7314a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bobak Ha'Eri","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0725-CA-Visalia-HydeHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobak Ha'Eri</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0725-CA-Visalia-HydeHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862231","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_House_(Visalia,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682436"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tulare-county/hyde-house-79000565/"}