{"nrhp_refnum":"86002361","name":"Old Bryant-Link Building","other_names":["West Texas Utilities"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 S. Swenson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stamford","county":"Jones County","state":"TX","lat":32.94470444700005,"lon":-99.80355895899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story tile commercial building with a precast concrete facade at 120 S. Swenson on the town square in Stamford, Jones County, Texas, built in 1928 as the headquarters and store of the Bryant-Link Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is perhaps Stamford's most impressive architectural achievement and possibly the only commercial example of the Plateresque style in the region. It also reflects the success of the Bryant-Link retail company, one of Stamford's earliest and most successful commercial ventures.","narrative":"Built in 1928 on Stamford's town square, this one-story tile commercial building served as the home offices and dry-goods and department store of the Bryant-Link Company. The firm began in Anson in 1884 as a small farm-implements and dry-goods store, opened a Stamford store in 1900, and by the mid-1930s operated stores in five West Texas towns. At the height of its prosperity it replaced its original large brick building with a fashionable new structure. Its facade was precast in San Antonio, shipped to Stamford and installed, and its elaborate cast-concrete ornament draws on Plateresque, or Spanish Colonial Revival, design. The original larger storefront retains dark metal framing, brass-stripped plate glass and a mosaic tile entrance floor. West Texas Utilities bought the building in 1973 and remodeled it sympathetically. It is regarded as one of the region's best, and perhaps only, commercial examples of the style, and as a local landmark.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival (Plateresque)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as altered but in good condition; purchased by West Texas Utilities in 1973, remodeled inside and refurbished outside in a largely sympathetic manner, and still in commercial use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.878536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9697/40969742/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002361.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002361/825633f3d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002361/825633f3d4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Bryan-Link_Building1_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Old_Bryan-Link_Building1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969742","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001243"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/jones-county/old-bryant-link-building-86002361/"}