{"nrhp_refnum":"86000991","name":"Belford Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Tinnen House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by University Ave., Main, E. Eighteenth, and Austin","address_restricted":false,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Williamson County","state":"TX","lat":30.63000429850004,"lon":-97.6777026400651,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about eight blocks along the 1200 and 1600-1900 blocks of Austin Avenue and Main Street in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, in the Morrow and Lost additions south of the county courthouse. It holds 81 structures, mostly houses built from the 1870s to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district holds the city's greatest concentration of historic and architecturally significant dwellings, many built by local lumberman Charles S. Belford and his Belford Lumber Co. It shows a cross-section of Belford's career and the development of Georgetown housing forms from the 1870s to the 1930s. It was also home to leading citizens such as Mayor Marsh F. Smith and Judge Cooper Sansom.","narrative":"This residential neighborhood of about eight blocks in Georgetown, Texas, covers the 1200 and 1600-1900 blocks of Austin Avenue and Main Street, four blocks south of the county courthouse. It contains 81 structures, 70 of them contributing, and holds the city's largest collection of historic dwellings. Much of it was built by local lumberman Charles S. Belford, who came to Georgetown in 1884 and built up the Belford Lumber Co. The houses show his range, from his own 1896 Queen Anne home to Prairie School influenced residences and many bungalows. Older homes cluster in the 1200 blocks, while the 1600 to 1900 blocks were built mostly in the 1910s and 1920s with consistent setbacks and similar massing. The neighborhood housed prominent residents, including Mayor Marsh F. Smith and Judge Cooper Sansom. The district records how Georgetown's housing evolved from the 1870s to the 1930s, and how builders began erecting houses in groups much like later subdivisions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles S. Belford / Belford Lumber Co.; also C.S. Griffith, A.C. Brady, C.B. Lunsford and M.L. Langford for some houses","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Italianate, Prairie School influenced, bungalow, L-plan vernacular and other early twentieth-century forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 81 structures, 70 contribute to the district and 11 are noncontributing. Uses include private residence, religious, park, commercial and vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.425789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/9708/40970863/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86000991.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000991/eb1c7c5ca6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000991/eb1c7c5ca6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BelfordHistoricDistrict2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:BelfordHistoricDistrict2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970863","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belford_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4882379"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/williamson-county/belford-historic-district-86000991/"}