{"nrhp_refnum":"83004497","name":"Goforth-Harris House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"401 Comanche St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Marcos","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":29.885211626000057,"lon":-97.94470732499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story white frame Victorian house at 401 Comanche Street in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, built about 1905 by J.T. Goforth and his wife Lucinda.","why_significant":"The house is considered architecturally significant as a typical late Victorian residence with an asymmetrical plan and a gracefully detailed porch. It is also linked to Texas education through its residents, notably Lon Harris, the first president of Southwest Texas Normal School, and J.T. Goforth, a founder of the Goforth School.","narrative":"Built around 1905 at 401 Comanche Street in San Marcos, this two-story white frame house combines Victorian styling with a long link to Texas education. It has a hipped roof with a cross gable, a curved double gallery between the main block and the rear ell, three-sided bays, quarter-circle porch brackets with paired turned posts, and fishscale shingles in the gable ends. J.T. Goforth and his wife Lucinda built it. Goforth founded a town northeast of San Marcos that carried his name and helped found and fund the Goforth School. In 1913 the house was sold to Thomas Green and Lon Harris. Harris, an educator and school superintendent in several Texas cities, became the first president of Southwest Texas Normal School in 1903 and later led the San Marcos Baptist Academy. The house has been divided into apartments and has some alterations, but the other three faces are virtually unchanged and interior details such as coffered wainscoting and an ornate stair survive.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in good condition but altered; converted into three apartments and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.438556-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/9695/40969551/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004497.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004497/f98ea9fd1f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004497/f98ea9fd1f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goforth_harris_house_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goforth_harris_house_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969551","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002244"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/goforth-harris-house-83004497/"}