{"nrhp_refnum":"79003448","name":"Stillman, Charles, House","other_names":["The Charles Stillman House Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1305 E. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brownsville","county":"Cameron County","state":"TX","lat":25.900708983000072,"lon":-97.49633193299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Greek Revival brick house at 1305 E. Washington Street in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, built circa 1850 for Charles Stillman. It is now a city-owned house museum.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the oldest residences in Brownsville and an early, fine, small-scale Greek Revival brick structure. It was the home of Charles Stillman, owner and developer of the original Brownsville townsite. Its significance is tied to architecture and exploration/settlement.","narrative":"Built around 1850 at 1305 E. Washington Street, this one-story Greek Revival house is among the earliest brick residences in Brownsville. It was constructed of pink common-bond brick on a brick foundation, with a slate-shingled gabled roof, a front porch carried on four round plastered columns, and a central hall plan with a large kitchen fireplace. A brick carriage house stands at the rear. The house was built for Charles Stillman, a merchant who surveyed and developed the original Brownsville townsite beside Fort Brown after the Mexican War. His children James Jewett and Isabel Goodrich were born there. Later occupants included Thomas Carson, Stillman's agent and mayor of Brownsville from 1879 to 1892, and the Trevino family, during whose ownership it served for several years as the Mexican Consulate. Stillman's great-grandson bought it in 1958 and gave it to the Brownsville Historical Association, which passed it to the city. It now operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":"circa 1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained by the Brownsville Historical Association as a museum open to the public; owned by the City of Brownsville; condition marked good and unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.15652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9714/40971458/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79003448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003448/085aa07627-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003448/085aa07627-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stillman_House_Brownsville_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:Stillman_House_Brownsville_Texas.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004008","name":"Central Brownsville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/central-brownsville-historic-district-100004008/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971458","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/cameron-county/stillman-charles-house-79003448/"}