{"nrhp_refnum":"79002983","name":"Smyth, Andrew, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Jasper","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jasper","county":"Jasper County","state":"TX","lat":30.935418209000034,"lon":-94.14426869799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A dog-trot style farmhouse in the vicinity of Jasper, Jasper County, Texas, built 1849-1852 by Captain Andrew Farney Smyth on his farm near the Bevelport townsite, with a rear kitchen and dining ell added in 1859.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine example of frontier folk architecture, a dog-trot form executed in milled clapboard lumber, which was the first use of milled lumber for a house in the area. It is also tied to Captain Smyth, a riverboat operator and sawmill owner whose roughly 1,500 pages of surviving papers document the property well.","narrative":"Built between 1849 and 1852 near the Bevelport townsite in Jasper County, Texas, this dog-trot farmhouse was the work of Captain Andrew Farney Smyth, a riverboat operator and sawmill owner. Two main rooms flank an open breezeway under one gabled roof, and a rear kitchen and dining ell added in 1859 gave the house a T shape. Smyth milled the lumber at his own sawmill on Indian Creek and used it as clapboard siding, at a time when neighboring houses were built of rough logs. Glass windows arrived by his keelboat from Galveston. Porches with shed rooms, brick chimneys and a sunken greenhouse completed the farm complex. The house is regarded as a good example of frontier folk architecture and as the first in the area built of milled lumber. Smyth's surviving papers, about 1,500 pages, document its history. A 1960 renovation rebuilt the rear wing and chimneys, yet the house retains most of its original character.","period_of_significance":"1849","architect_builder":"Captain Andrew Farney Smyth","architectural_style":"Dog-trot style (East Texas log house complex / folk architecture)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied on the form. Renovated in 1960, including reconstruction of the rear wing, replacement of siding, rebuilt chimneys and cement piers. The house stands on its original site within 470 acres of the former farm.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.034759-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/9726/40972657/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002983.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002983/59119b504a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002983/59119b504a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smyth_House1_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Smyth_House1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972657","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001231"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/jasper-county/smyth-andrew-house-79002983/"}