{"nrhp_refnum":"83003169","name":"Waverly","other_names":["Tunstall-Langhorne House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"FR 2447","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chappell Hill","county":"Washington County","state":"TX","lat":30.14518126400003,"lon":-96.25118392399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Waverly, also called the Tunstall-Langhorne House, is a one-story frame Greek Revival residence on a 7.7-acre site at the edge of Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas. It was built circa 1850 by Dr. William Leigh Tunstall.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Waverly as a fine, well-preserved example of a small-scale Greek Revival house of the 1850s that keeps its original detached kitchen building. It is also tied to prominent Chappell Hill figures, including physicians Tunstall and William H. Langhorne and railroad builder William W. Sledge. The house was the center of an active cotton plantation before and after the Civil War.","narrative":"Waverly is a one-story frame house on the edge of Chappell Hill, Texas, built around 1850 by physician William Leigh Tunstall. Built of local stone, cedar and pine, it follows the symmetrical Greek Revival pattern, with a five-bay south front, a central pedimented doorway with fluted pilasters, and a six-column porch added between 1890 and 1900. About 1893 Dr. William H. Langhorne added a west wing to serve as his medical office, repeating the original detailing. The original detached kitchen and dining building still stands north of the house and is now a guesthouse. Waverly was the center of a cotton plantation that grew to several thousand acres under John Chadwick. Its owners included William Sledge, a founder of the company that built the Washington County Railroad. The house is valued for its excellent preservation, its modest Greek Revival design, and its link to the town's early medical and commercial leaders.","period_of_significance":"1850/1893","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by Dr. William Leigh Tunstall)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, and in use as a private residence. The detached kitchen now serves as a guesthouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.65157-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/9739/40973932/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003169.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973932","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000065"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/washington-county/waverly-83003169/"}