{"nrhp_refnum":"83004432","name":"Cummings House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1418 Heights Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.796569934000047,"lon":-95.39778745699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Prairie Style house at 1418 Heights Boulevard in the Houston Heights neighborhood of Houston, Harris County, Texas, built in 1921.","why_significant":"The house is considered a good example of Prairie Style architecture as built around World War I. Its original owner, O. S. Cummings, was part of Houston's new and growing oil industry during that era. Significance is recorded at the local level under architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1921 at 1418 Heights Boulevard in Houston, this two-story frame house represents the Prairie Style as it was built in the years around World War I. It has clapboard walls, a composition roof and a hipped roofline with a porte-cochere extending from one side. The attached porch and the porte-cochere roof rest on battered half-columns set on brick piers, and large rectangular balusters surround the porch. The single front door has sidelights, and a large front window has double sidelights with many panes and a long transom of small lights. Windows elsewhere use six-over-one sash. The survey records no alterations and a good condition, and the house sits in the middle of a residential block on less than one acre. Its original owner, O. S. Cummings, was part of Houston's new and growing oil industry of that period. The property was recognized locally for its architecture, and it remains a rental residence.","period_of_significance":"1900--","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Prairie Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition is listed as good, with no alterations; the house is in use as a rental residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.707259-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/9693/40969330/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004432.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004432/21d6ffff3e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004432/21d6ffff3e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cummings_House,_1418_Heights_Blvd_Houston.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:Cummings_House,_1418_Heights_Blvd_Houston.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969330","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002120"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/cummings-house-83004432/"}