{"nrhp_refnum":"80004135","name":"Faulk and Gauntt Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"217 N. Prairieville St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Henderson County","state":"TX","lat":32.20056637500005,"lon":-95.86353510399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick commercial building at 217 North Prairieville Street, one block north of the town square in Athens, Henderson County, Texas, built in 1896 by Hawn Lumber Company.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of late Victorian commercial architecture and one of the few Athens buildings intact from the prosperous railroad era. Its ownership history also includes several pioneer families of the community.","narrative":"Built in 1896 one block north of the Athens town square, this two-story commercial building has loadbearing reddish-brown brick walls laid in English bond and measures twenty-five by seventy-five feet. The east facade has a recessed double-door entrance, display windows with colored-glass transoms, brick hood moulds, corbeling, piers and chimneys with dentilled caps. Hawn Lumber Company constructed it on a site once held by Judges W.L. and J.J. Faulk, later bought by J.R. Gauntt, after an earlier law office on the lot was razed. The ground floor housed a mercantile business and then a grocery, while the upper floor held law, medical and dental offices. Its location near the St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad suited commerce, but use declined with the automobile. Later uses included a small factory and, from 1944 to 1946, city hall. It is listed as an excellent example of late Victorian commercial design and a rare survivor of the town's railroad-era prosperity. The local historical society plans a museum there.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Hawn Lumber Company, Athens, Texas","architectural_style":"Late Victorian commercial architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, in fair condition; owned by the Henderson County Historical Society, which plans to convert it into a museum.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.892786-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9725/40972558/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004135.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004135/bbbf7ef3ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004135/bbbf7ef3ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrandandGauntt1_(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:FrandandGauntt1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972558","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulk_and_Gauntt_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56290732"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/henderson-county/faulk-and-gauntt-building-80004135/"}