{"nrhp_refnum":"80004152","name":"Boardman-Webb-Bugg House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"602 W. 9th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.272563860000048,"lon":-97.74774899299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden frame Victorian house at 602 West 9th Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas, built in the early 1880s for dentist Dr. George T. Boardman, with its original carriage barn and cistern.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a solid example of a Victorian residence built by prosperous families in early Austin, and probably the first house in its vicinity. It is also significant as the home for over a third of a century of Walter Prescott Webb, an internationally known historian and author of The Great Plains. The two associations together make it a valuable link to Austin's past.","narrative":"Built around 1880 on an original Austin city lot, this two-story wooden Victorian house at 602 West 9th Street was probably the first in its neighborhood. Dentist Dr. George T. Boardman commissioned Carl Drake of Drake Brothers Lumber Company to build it. The frame structure has cypress siding, a double veranda, a five-sided projecting bay, pedimented four-over-four windows and a central hall plan with fireplaces in the front rooms. A board-and-batten carriage barn and a cistern remain at the rear. In 1925 the house was bought by Walter Prescott Webb, the University of Texas historian whose book The Great Plains won the Loubat Prize. Webb also directed the Texas State Historical Association and helped produce the Junior Historian program and the Handbook of Texas. He lived here for more than thirty years. The house has seen only minor alterations and is valued both as an example of Victorian residential architecture and for its link to Webb.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Carl Drake, co-owner of Drake Brothers Lumber Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence since 1934; described as sound and in good condition, with an ongoing restoration program.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.579858-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/9737/40973733/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004152.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004152/159bb0dec0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004152/159bb0dec0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boardman_webb_bugg_house_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boardman_webb_bugg_house_2011.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010021","name":"West Downtown Austin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/west-downtown-austin-historic-district-100010021/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973733","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000434"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/boardman-webb-bugg-house-80004152/"}