{"nrhp_refnum":"83004451","name":"House at 828 Heights Boulevard","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"828 Heights Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.785659348000024,"lon":-95.39752734799998,"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 Victorian house at 828 Heights Boulevard in the Houston Heights neighborhood of Houston, Harris County, Texas. A 2003 amendment gives its construction date as 1902; the original 1980 survey said 1906.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a well-preserved example of the relatively simple, large Victorian houses built along Heights Boulevard, and it is significant under Criterion C for architecture. The 2003 amendment corrects the address and the construction date and names Samuel W. Hawkens as architect/builder, working from Sears Roebuck plans.","narrative":"This two-story frame house on Heights Boulevard in Houston was built as a residence and shows Queen Anne influence. It has a hipped roof with several gables and clapboard walls under a composition roof. An attached porch wraps around one side, supported by turned posts with flatcut fretwork and balusters. The single front door has a transom, the side door matches it, and the windows have two-over-two lights. A 1980 survey found it in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site, in a well-kept yard with large trees in the middle of a residential block. It was listed for architecture as a well-preserved example of the relatively simple, large Victorian houses along the boulevard. A 2003 amendment corrected the address from 825 to 828 Heights and changed the construction date from 1906 to 1902. It also names Samuel W. Hawkens as builder, working from Sears Roebuck plans. Early deed records were confusing, which made the house's history hard to trace.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":"Samuel W. Hawkens (on plans from Sears Roebuck)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne influence","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition was recorded as excellent in 1980, with no alterations and the original site. At that time it served as a resale shop for a women's volunteer organization.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.781901-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/9693/40969338/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004451/ca886061cb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004451/ca886061cb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_828_Heights_Blvd_(HDR).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas</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:House_at_828_Heights_Blvd_(HDR).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969338","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002156"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/house-at-828-heights-boulevard-83004451/"}