{"nrhp_refnum":"83004437","name":"Hartley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"315 W. 17th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.800661441000045,"lon":-95.40098797599995,"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 one-and-a-half-story frame house at 315 West 17th Street in the Houston Heights neighborhood of Houston, Harris County, Texas, built around 1909-1910. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The form describes it as one of the most charming and best-preserved houses in its neighborhood. It appears in a promotional book for the Heights from around 1912, where it is listed as the home of J. W. Hartley and presented as an example of a comfortable residence. Its area of significance is architecture, at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1909 or 1910, this one-and-a-half-story frame house at 315 West 17th Street sits in the middle of a residential block in Houston Heights, across from a school building. It has a hipped roof, a central dormer with shingled walls and three tracery windows, and an attached porch supported by Doric columns with square balusters. The front door has a simple transom and sidelights with tracery, and it is flanked by sets of three large windows with ornate tracery. Other features include clapboard walls, a composition roof, a corbeled interior brick chimney and brick piers under the house. The house was listed for its architecture and its local importance. It is described as one of the most charming and best-preserved houses in the neighborhood. A promotional book for the Heights from about 1912 names it as the home of J. W. Hartley and uses it as an example of a comfortable residence. No alterations are known, and it remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":"1900--","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition is listed as excellent, with no known alterations; the house is still used as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.691732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/9692/40969252/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004437.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004437/027c21370e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004437/027c21370e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartley_House,_Houston,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartley_House,_Houston,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969252","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002174"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/hartley-house-83004437/"}