{"nrhp_refnum":"86001088","name":"Swedish Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"900--1000 blks. of E. Fourteenth St. and 900 blk. of E. Fifteenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.274481817000037,"lon":-97.72953192421292,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district in the northwestern part of historic East Austin, Texas, along East 14th and 15th, Olander and Waller streets. It covers about 4 acres with 12 houses built between ca. 1880 and ca. 1938.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its architecture. It contains a broad range of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century house styles, each building an excellent example of its type. Details are complete and original plans largely unobscured, making it the best intact neighborhood of its era in East Austin.","narrative":"Swedish Hill is a compact East Austin neighborhood of twelve houses fronting East 14th and East 15th streets, between Olander and Waller streets. Built between about 1880 and about 1938, the houses represent every decade of that span. The area was part of the Original City of Austin and was developed earlier than most of East Austin, housing downtown business people and tradesmen, several of them carpenters. Styles include vernacular Victorian L-plan, T-plan, Cumberland-plan and corner-porch houses, along with a pyramidal cottage and bungalows. Many display carpentry ornament such as porch columns, brackets, spindles and varied siding and shingles. Setbacks, landscaping, scale and materials are consistent, and the buildings are well maintained. Two buildings, a small modern residence and a Cumberland-plan cottage with applied siding, do not contribute but fit the scale of their neighbors. The district was recognized as the best example in East Austin of a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century residential neighborhood that remains intact. Surrounding blocks were left out because their facades had been heavily altered.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Victorian L plan, T plan, Cumberland plan, late Victorian corner-porch plan, Pyramidal plan, and Bungalow plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and in a remarkable state of preservation, with about 50% of buildings owner occupied; 10 contributing and 2 noncontributing buildings (counts vary between copies).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.622041-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/9703/40970323/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86001088.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001088/c3d3e0a307-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001088/c3d3e0a307-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swedehill1.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:Swedehill1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970323","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7654700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/swedish-hill-historic-district-86001088/"}