{"nrhp_refnum":"83003156","name":"Lichtenstein, S. Julius, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1617 N. Chaparral St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Corpus Christi","county":"Nueces County","state":"TX","lat":27.803294863000076,"lon":-97.39616805499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame house in transitional Colonial Revival/Queen Anne style at 1617 North Chaparral Street, Corpus Christi, Texas. Built in 1905 at 715 North Chaparral and moved to its present site in 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of middle-class housing common in Corpus Christi around 1900 but now very scarce, since hurricanes and demolition have erased much of the city's early architecture. It was built for merchant S. Julius Lichtenstein and his wife Carrie Weil. It has also been rehabilitated as a children's creative arts center.","narrative":"Built in 1905 for Corpus Christi merchant S. Julius Lichtenstein and his wife Carrie, this one-story frame house combines Colonial Revival and Queen Anne details. Features include a three-part bay window topped by a small octagonal-roofed tower, a front door with transom and sidelights patterned as a St. George's cross, and a porch with Doric columns under a cedar-shingle hipped roof. Lichtenstein managed his family's long-running dry goods business. The couple kept the house until 1926, and about 1929 a realtor moved it nine blocks north from 715 to 1617 North Chaparral Street, where the Ritz Theatre was later built on the original site. It served as rental housing for decades. The city acquired it in the 1970s and had it restored as a creative arts center for children, with new landscaping added in 1982. Hurricanes and demolition have claimed most of the city's turn-of-the-century homes, so this ordinary house now carries added local importance.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional Colonial Revival/Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and in use as a creative arts center for children, owned by the City of Corpus Christi; condition listed as excellent, altered and moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.44659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/9731/40973108/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003156.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003156/f9074eeea4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003156/f9074eeea4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lichtenstien_House_Corpus_Christi_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:25or6to4</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:Lichtenstien_House_Corpus_Christi_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973108","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001278"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/nueces-county/lichtenstein-s-julius-house-83003156/"}