{"nrhp_refnum":"86001366","name":"Saxon Motor Car Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"316 E. Sixth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Williamson County","state":"TX","lat":30.638274128000035,"lon":-97.67440837299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story wood-frame commercial building at 316 E. 6th Street in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, built about 1920 as a Saxon Motor Car garage. It was moved to its present site around 1945.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good example of early twentieth-century vernacular commercial architecture and a rare frame commercial building. Georgetown has only two intact frame commercial buildings, and this is the best local example. Unlike the brick and stone downtown buildings, it lacks stylistic detailing such as Queen Anne or Neoclassical Revival.","narrative":"This one-story wood-frame building at 316 E. 6th Street in Georgetown was built around 1920 as a garage for Saxon Motor Cars, with W. R. McElroy as distributor. It was later moved, about 1945, from the 800 block of West Main Street beside the Old Fire Station to its present spot in a mostly residential area roughly three blocks from the central business district. The building has pressed-metal front and sides, some in a stone-block pattern, a gable roof of corrugated metal, display windows, a double-door entrance, a wood cornice across the north front, and a beaded-board ceiling inside. A c. 1930 addition stands on the south side, and a noncontributing rear shed was added after the move. It was listed because Georgetown has many fine brick and stone commercial buildings but only two intact frame ones. This is the best local example of a once-common building type and of plain, vernacular commercial architecture from the early twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular early twentieth-century commercial architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and in fair condition at the time of the inventory (1984).","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.951995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/9707/40970799/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86001366.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001366/d85181e48c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001366/d85181e48c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SaxonMotorCar1.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:SaxonMotorCar1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970799","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Motor_Car_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56062927"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/williamson-county/saxon-motor-car-store-86001366/"}