{"nrhp_refnum":"80004099","name":"White-Pool House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"112 E. Murphy St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Odessa","county":"Ector County","state":"TX","lat":31.841908769000042,"lon":-102.36458455199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick house at 112 East Murphy Street in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, built in 1887 by Charles White and his two adult sons as a family home near the transcontinental railroad.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the oldest existing structure in Ector County and its only example of late 19th and early 20th century architecture. It is tied to the White family's role in the county's early agricultural, commercial, political and religious development. It also reflects the 1927 oil boom, when the Pool family converted it to apartments and platted Pool's Annex.","narrative":"Built in 1887 on the highest knoll in what is now Odessa, this two-story red brick house was raised by Charles White and his two adult sons near the new transcontinental railroad. Modeled on an earlier White house in Raysville, Indiana, it used local materials such as caliche rock, native sandstone and wooden shakes. The Whites were among the county's first permanent settlers. Charles White is believed to have started agriculture in Ector County, and the family ran a mercantile store, held early county offices and began a Union Sunday School. In 1923 Oso W. Pool bought the property. During the 1927 oil boom he divided the house into apartments, annexed the land to the city and sold lots as Pool's Annex. Some alterations were added, but the structure is described as basically sound, and they can be removed. The house is regarded as the oldest surviving building in the county and a symbol of both its ranching and oil-boom eras. Plans call for restoration as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1887","architect_builder":"Charles White and sons, Wilfred W and Herbert H.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Fair condition; altered by apartment conversion but structurally sound. Owned by Ector County with the historical commission as trustees, and restoration as a museum and Pioneer Park is planned.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.601823-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/9718/40971827/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004099.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004099/0f2d93266c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004099/0f2d93266c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-Pool_House_in_Odessa,_TX_Picture_1849.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:White-Pool_House_in_Odessa,_TX_Picture_1849.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971827","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1674056"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ector-county/white-pool-house-80004099/"}