{"nrhp_refnum":"79003019","name":"Callender House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"404 W. Guadelupe St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Victoria","county":"Victoria County","state":"TX","lat":28.808045552000067,"lon":-97.00712228799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame Greek Revival house built in 1855 at 404 W. Guadalupe Street in Victoria, Texas, with a servants' quarters and a garage on the same three-acre lot.","why_significant":"The house marks Victoria's shift from early frontier building to the more refined Greek Revival style that became standard for Texas residences before the Civil War. It is one of the few surviving antebellum buildings in the area and one of the best preserved in the state. It was also the home of two prominent local professional men, and it is accepted as the first house in Texas built of pre-cut lumber.","narrative":"Built in 1855 at 404 W. Guadalupe Street in Victoria, Texas, this two-story wood frame house is a vernacular example of Greek Revival design. It sits on brick piers above a raised cellar and has a hip gable roof, brick chimneys, and a full-width veranda of six square columns that divides the facade into five bays. Inside, a central hall with rooms on each side follows the typical Greek Revival plan. Accounts differ on where the lumber came from, but the house is accepted as the first in Texas built of pre-cut lumber, originally used for a hunting lodge and later dismantled and reassembled here. Its construction marked a move away from the log-and-puncheon buildings of Victoria's frontier days. Dr. Thomas Cocke, a physician and legislator, was associated with its building. Later the Callender family, including attorney and educator William Callender, lived there until 1976. Two board-and-batten outbuildings survive on the property.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dr. Thomas R. Cocke","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition with recent structural repairs; chimneys, foundation and roof have been stabilized, and it is occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.088432-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/9738/40973889/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79003019.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973889","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107318358"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/victoria-county/callender-house-79003019/"}