{"nrhp_refnum":"83003132","name":"McKinney Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Herndon, Wood, Cloyd, Davis, Louisiana, MacDonald, and Virginia Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.19751320250006,"lon":-96.61451993024566,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-01-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 12-block commercial historic district of about 21 acres in downtown McKinney, Collin County, Texas, centered on the Old Collin County Courthouse and containing 99 buildings, 62 of them contributing, mostly late 19th- and early 20th-century brick commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The district holds a concentrated, largely intact group of brick commercial buildings from the late 1800s to about 1930. They document McKinney's growth after the railroad arrived in 1872. The varied styles, similar scale and materials give the area a strong sense of place. Notable examples include the 1880 jail, the 1911 Post Office and the 1918 bank building.","narrative":"Downtown McKinney's commercial core is a 12-block, 21-acre district in Collin County, Texas, organized around the Old Collin County Courthouse. Of 99 buildings, 62 contribute to its historic character. Most are brick commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The railroad reached McKinney in 1872 and set off a building boom that replaced frame structures with brick and stone and brought the town to about 4,400 residents by 1900. The district shows no single style. It includes the 1880 Italianate limestone jail by architect F. E. Ruffini, the 1883 Bingham Building with its cast-iron columns, the 1911 Second Renaissance Revival Post Office, the 1918 Central National Bank Building with Art Deco teller windows, and the 1922 remodeled Dowell Building, described as a rare Texas example of the Commercial style. Alterations since the 1930s have mostly affected storefronts and interiors, leaving rear walls largely untouched.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"F. E. Ruffini (Old Collin County Jail, 1880)","architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate, Second Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts Classicism, Art Deco, Commercial and commercial vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good and fair, with the district both occupied and unoccupied. The Old Post Office was recently converted to a museum, and the Old Collin County Jail was vacated in 1979.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.24783-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/9715/40971518/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003132.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971518","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/mckinney-commercial-historic-district-83003132/"}