{"nrhp_refnum":"83003139","name":"Zapp Building","other_names":["Country Place Hotel and Restaurant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Fayette and Washington Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Fayette County","state":"TX","lat":29.904169199000023,"lon":-96.67703632799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Romanesque Revival brick commercial building on the corner of Fayette and Washington Streets, facing the town square of Fayetteville, Fayette County, Texas. It was built in 1900 for Hugo Zapp.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an unusually fine, well-preserved example of Romanesque Revival style and the only masonry commercial building on Fayetteville's square, where the other early commercial buildings were wood. It also reflects the varied commercial uses and the aspirations of local merchants and builders at the turn of the century.","narrative":"Standing on a corner of Fayetteville's town square, this two-story brick building was completed in 1900 for merchant Hugo Zapp. Its angled corner entrance, second-floor gallery, polychromed red and yellow brick walls, stucco water table imitating rusticated stone and pressed-metal ceilings make it a fine example of Romanesque Revival design. Stidham and Kurtz are named as builders, though the designer of the plans is unknown. It is the only masonry commercial building on the square, where other early commercial buildings were wood and many were lost to fire. Zapp ran a mercantile business here, while upstairs rooms held a dentist, an undertaker and hotel rooms for traveling salesmen. Later tenants included a hospital, a school, a cafe, a boarding house and a Prohibition-era speakeasy in the basement. Its main alteration came in the 1920s, when the interior gallery was closed in. The building continues in commercial and hotel use today.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Stidham & Kurtz, Builders","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in commercial use at the time of nomination, with an architect's office, a restaurant, an antique shop and hotel rooms; condition described as excellent and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.128864-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/9719/40971936/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003139.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003139/e7d6808df0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003139/e7d6808df0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fayetteville_Historic_District_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Fayetteville_Historic_District_1.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08000657","name":"Fayetteville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/fayetteville-historic-district-08000657/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971936","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapp_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85817008"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/fayette-county/zapp-building-83003139/"}