{"nrhp_refnum":"86002295","name":"Palestine High School","other_names":["Reagan School","Reagan, John H., Memorial Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Micheaux Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palestine","county":"Anderson County","state":"TX","lat":31.758265145000053,"lon":-95.62736107799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, T-shaped brick and reinforced-concrete school at 400 Micheaux Avenue in Reagan Park, Palestine, Texas, dedicated in 1916 and designed by Sanguinet and Staats.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building reflects the community's early 20th-century commitment to public education and the most modern school design of its day. It is one of the city's most important and least altered works of architecture. It is also the only surviving building of four that served as Palestine's high school before 1966, and the only known surviving work in Palestine by the Texas architects Sanguinet and Staats.","narrative":"Palestine High School is a three-story, T-shaped building of brick over a reinforced-concrete frame, set into a hillside in Reagan Park near the center of Palestine, Texas. Designed by architects Sanguinet and Staats and built by A. W. Flynt of Fort Worth, it was dedicated in July 1916 after voters approved a bond issue the previous year. Its Jacobean-Tudor styling includes limestone trim, polychrome brickwork, flattened arches and a concrete flying stairway on the park side. Inside are an auditorium with balcony and a gymnasium. The building served as a high school, then a junior high and elementary school, before closing in 1976. A citizens' group formed in 1981 to save it from demolition and now leases it as a museum and cultural center. The nomination values it as a well-preserved example of early school design, the last of four Palestine high school buildings, and a rare local work by notable Texas architects.","period_of_significance":"1915-16","architect_builder":"A. W. Flynt/Sanguinet & Staats","architectural_style":"Jacobean-Tudor","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted to a museum and cultural center, the John H. Reagan Memorial Center, after standing empty from 1976 to 1981; described as in good condition and occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.913917-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/9709/40970991/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002295.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002295/acda206081-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002295/acda206081-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestine_August_2017_50_(Museum_for_East_Texas_Culture).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Barera</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestine_August_2017_50_(Museum_for_East_Texas_Culture).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970991","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111016522"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/anderson-county/palestine-high-school-86002295/"}