{"nrhp_refnum":"83003164","name":"Barr, William Braxton, House","other_names":["Sprinkle House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE of Austin at 10463 Sprinkle Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.35170855100006,"lon":-97.64748964199998,"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 two-story wooden frame farmhouse at 10463 Sprinkle Road, northeast of Austin in Travis County, Texas, built in 1898 for local businessman William B. Barr. It sits on 7.4 acres of the original 200-acre farm and retains several outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a fine example of late-Victorian architecture in Texas, with Eastlake ornament and Colonial Revival detailing that is unusually elaborate for a rural farmhouse. It is tied to William Barr, who founded the town of Sprinkle and helped develop the area. It was also an early commission of Austin architect Charles Page.","narrative":"Built in 1898 on a farm northeast of Austin, this two-story wooden house is notable for ornament rarely seen on Texas farmhouses. Its Eastlake features include incised vergeboards, a two-story belvedere with horseshoe-shaped arches, and a double gallery with delicate spindle friezes. Colonial Revival swags appear beneath the bay window. Inside, the staircase and parlor mantel are made of rare East Texas curly pine. Several Carpenter Gothic outbuildings survive, including a carriage house shaped like a Greek cross, servants quarters and a privy. The house was built for William B. Barr, a merchant, cotton ginner and landowner who founded the nearby town of Sprinkle and worked to bring a railroad to it. He hired Charles Page, then a young Austin architect, to design it. Barr died in 1902, but his widow lived there for about fifty years. With Sprinkle largely gone, the house is the main reminder of the community.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Charles Page","architectural_style":"Eastlake with Colonial Revival detailing; outbuildings in vernacular Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the form describes a general renovation by the owners as nearly complete and the outbuildings as in fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.810603-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/9736/40973630/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003164.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003164/a2910cec57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003164/a2910cec57-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"donjudo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Braxton_Barr_House_2013-09-28_12-00-35.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">donjudo</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:William_Braxton_Barr_House_2013-09-28_12-00-35.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973630","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/barr-william-braxton-house-83003164/"}