{"nrhp_refnum":"85002276","name":"Moreland, Charles B., House","other_names":["Site #4","Moreland House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1301 E. 1st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.26123462000004,"lon":-97.73126150599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, late Victorian wood-frame house at 1301 East 1st Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas, built in 1898 as a residence for Charles B. Moreland.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most ornate, visually impressive and architecturally intact Victorian residences in East Austin. It displays a wide range of textures and carpentry details using materials available locally around 1900. It is also tied to Moreland, a wallpaper and paint dealer who founded a Congress Avenue firm.","narrative":"Built in 1898 at 1301 East 1st Street in Austin, this two-story wood-frame house is a late Victorian residence with a two-story gallery. The front door opens onto a porch and is offset from the entrance pavilion, with a matching door on the second-floor porch. Fish-scale shingles fill the gable ends and run in a band above the first-floor windows, while spindles, drops and elaborate barge trim decorate the gables. Beaded siding and turned balusters, columns and spindles echo materials found on other East Austin buildings of the period. Contractor C. W. Moore built it from plans by Austin architect J. J. Byrdson, at a cost of $1,939. Charles B. Moreland, who ran a wholesale and retail wallpaper, paint and painters' supply business on Congress Avenue, did the painting and papering himself. The house is considered one of the most ornate and intact Victorian homes in East Austin, and it was renovated between 1980 and 1984.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Contractor C. W. Moore; plans and specifications by J. J. Byrdson","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition listed as excellent; no apparent alterations, renovated between 1980 and 1984. Original use was residential.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.266611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9703/40970342/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/85002276.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002276/9b9445d5f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002276/9b9445d5f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_moreland_house_2011.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:Charles_moreland_house_2011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970342","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/moreland-charles-b-house-85002276/"}