{"nrhp_refnum":"83004435","name":"Ellis, Dr. Billie V., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1515 Heights Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.79863258900008,"lon":-95.39845722299998,"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 house at 1515 Heights Boulevard in the Houston Heights neighborhood of Houston, Harris County, Texas, built in 1912. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The house is listed for its architecture, at local level of significance, as a well-preserved example of Queen Anne/Colonial Revival design. Its 1911 sale also illustrates how quickly property values rose in the Heights during its development. Dr. Billie V. Ellis, a prominent local physician, appears to have been its first resident.","narrative":"Built in 1912 at 1515 Heights Boulevard in Houston, this two-story frame house combines Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features. It has clapboard walls, a composition roof, and a hip roof with a projecting gable end on the second-story bay. An attached porch wraps to one side on Doric columns, with flat balusters between them. The front has a single door and one-over-one windows. The house sits on less than an acre in a residential neighborhood, behind a modern iron fence, and remains in its original residential use with no recorded alterations. Dr. Billie V. Ellis, a prominent local physician with an office at 19th and Ashland, appears to have been the first resident after buying the property in 1911 for $1,800 from W. G. Love, who had paid $1,500 about eighteen months earlier. That exchange illustrates the rapid growth in property values in the Heights during its period of development. The house was recognized locally for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1900--","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Residence in original use and present use; condition listed as excellent, with no alterations and a well-kept yard with a modern iron fence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.098499-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/9693/40969370/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004435.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004435/0398e3ba04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004435/0398e3ba04-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Billie_V._Ellis_House_(HDR).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas</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:Dr._Billie_V._Ellis_House_(HDR).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969370","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001072"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/ellis-dr-billie-v-house-83004435/"}