{"nrhp_refnum":"82001735","name":"Anderson Camp Ground","other_names":["Brushy Creek Arbor and United Methodist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Brushy Creek on SR 837","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brushy Creek","county":"Anderson County","state":"TX","lat":31.954217421000067,"lon":-95.62319901499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 5.6-acre wooded religious camp ground near Brushy Creek, Anderson County, Texas, with an 1874 wooden arbor and an 1894 frame Gothic Revival church, plus an artesian spring used for baptisms.","why_significant":"The Brushy Creek Arbor is argued to be one of the few surviving arbors in Texas from the 1870s, a once-common structure type used to shelter Protestant camp meetings. The arbor, church and landscape retain their 19th-century character. The camp meetings were important social and religious gatherings for surrounding farm communities.","narrative":"Anderson Camp Ground is a wooded 5.6-acre religious site in rural Anderson County, Texas, centered on a wooden arbor built in 1874 and a frame church completed in 1894. The arbor is an open-sided, post-and-lintel structure with exposed rafters and hand-worked timbers, some joined with pegged rabbet splices. The one-story weatherboard church has simple Gothic Revival details, including lancet windows and a small belfry. An artesian spring nearby supplied water for drinking, cooking and baptisms. Methodist camp meetings here drew families by wagon each summer for days of preaching and socializing. Arbors like this were rarely built to last, and most in Texas have been lost, which makes the survival of this one notable. The last formal camp meetings took place in the early 1930s, but the church still holds services twice a month and the arbor is used for revivals and singing. The site has changed little since the nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (church); open-sided post-and-lintel arbor","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use; church services are held twice a month and the arbor is still used for revivals, singing and other activities. Condition is listed as good to fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.444715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/9709/40970993/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/82001735.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001735/b087fe4d3b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001735/b087fe4d3b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anderson_Campground1_(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:Anderson_Campground1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970993","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Camp_Ground","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4754034"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/anderson-county/anderson-camp-ground-82001735/"}