{"nrhp_refnum":"83003788","name":"Miller, Ezekial and Mary Jane, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"304 Hawthorne St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.74359522700007,"lon":-95.38401772699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 304 Hawthorne Street in Houston, Harris County, Texas, built in 1905 for Ezekial and Mary Jane Miller. Builder and architect are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact, well-detailed early 20th-century residence tied to a prominent merchant and civic leader and his family. It blends Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, with a corner tower and an unusual double-staircase plan. It was also one of the first Houston houses to include a complete bathroom in its original design.","narrative":"Built in 1905 at 304 Hawthorne Street in Houston, this two-story frame house was erected for Ezekial and Mary Jane Miller. Ezekial Miller, born in Ireland, had worked as a rice farmer and timberland owner in Louisiana before moving to Houston around 1900 and starting a coal and wood business. The Millers bought the Hawthorne lot in 1905 to have more room and to be closer to their church, at a time when no other houses stood in the Westmoreland area. The design combines Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features: a semi-octagonal three-story tower with an observation deck, large Palladian-style dormers, a porte-cochere, and a front porch with Tuscan columns. Inside, a columnar screen separates the entry hall from the stair hall, and two staircases meet at a landing bay. It was among the first Houston houses built with a complete bathroom. Two of the Millers' five children lived there as adults, and the house has been carefully renovated.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence at the time of nomination; the form says it was carefully renovated after being left vacant from 1970 until purchase in 1980.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.3789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/9723/40972324/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003788.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003788/f82328ea8a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003788/f82328ea8a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezekial_%26_Mary_Jane_Miller_House_(HDR).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezekial_%26_Mary_Jane_Miller_House_(HDR).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004129","name":"Courtlandt Place Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/courtlandt-place-historic-district-80004129/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972324","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/miller-ezekial-and-mary-jane-house-83003788/"}