{"nrhp_refnum":"84002002","name":"Batts, Judge Robert Lynn, House","other_names":["Okewell"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1505 Windsor Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.280576791000044,"lon":-97.75346937099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Okewell, the Judge Robert Lynn Batts House, is a large Mediterranean Revival residence at 1505 Windsor Road in Austin, Texas, built in 1925 on a hilltop above Shoal Creek to a design by architect Raymond Everett.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house's association with Judge Robert Lynn Batts, a prominent Texas public figure and University of Texas regent, who spent his final productive years there. It also presents the house as a significant, largely intact example of Mediterranean Revival architecture in Austin and central Texas.","narrative":"Okewell is a two-and-a-half-story Mediterranean Revival house at 1505 Windsor Road in Austin, completed in 1925 on a hilltop overlooking downtown. Its hand-troweled stucco walls, concrete-tile roof, loggias, terraces, balconies and ceramic and bronze plaques give it a picturesque character. Inside, the Weigl Brothers ironwork on the staircase and a long beamed library stand out. Judge Robert Lynn Batts and his wife Harriet designed it with architect Raymond Everett, who was also an artist and sculptor. Batts had served as Assistant Attorney General of Texas, a University of Texas law teacher, a federal prosecutor and a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. After retiring to Austin, he joined the University of Texas Board of Regents in 1927 and helped finance ten new campus buildings. The house later served as a rental, housed women's army corps members in World War II, was condemned in 1966, and was restored after 1976.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Raymond Everett","architectural_style":"Mediterranean Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the garage has been divided into apartments. It was condemned in 1966 for a planned expressway, then acquired and rehabilitated after demolition plans were halted about ten years later.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.504702-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/9737/40973751/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84002002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002002/25aaf7fe32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002002/25aaf7fe32-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Brockhoff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judge_Robert_Lynn_Batts_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Brockhoff</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:Judge_Robert_Lynn_Batts_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000937","name":"Old West Austin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/old-west-austin-historic-district-03000937/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Robert_Lynn_Batts_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14710540"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/batts-judge-robert-lynn-house-84002002/"}