{"nrhp_refnum":"86002371","name":"House at 509 West Brown","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"509 W. Brown","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ennis","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.32462136200007,"lon":-96.63111202199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, modified L-plan frame house at 509 West Brown in Ennis, Ellis County, Texas, built around 1905 by an unknown architect or builder. It has been moved to its present residential area west of the central business district.","why_significant":"The house is considered significant for its architecture. Its asymmetrical massing is more typical of Victorian-era dwellings, yet it carries Neoclassical Revival and bungalow details. The result is an unusual local variation of early twentieth-century eclecticism.","narrative":"This two-story frame house at 509 West Brown in Ennis, Texas, dates to about 1905 and follows a modified L-plan. It is clad in drop siding under a hip roof with composition shingles, and its windows are wood-sash, double-hung units with single-pane sashes. A single-door entrance with a transom opens onto an L-shaped hip-roofed porch carried on tapered box supports and Doric columns, with paired supports framing the entry and resting on shingled pedestals. Single bellcast hipped dormers break the roofline of the facade, and brick chimneys rise inside the house. The house is notable for blending styles. Its asymmetrical massing is more typical of Victorian-era homes, but Neoclassical Revival and bungalow details give it an unusual local variation of early twentieth-century eclecticism. The house has been moved to a residential area west of the central business district. It remains in residential use and is described as being in good condition. Its architect and builder are unknown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Modified L-plan; Neoclassical Revival and bungalow details in an early twentieth-century eclectic composition","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and in residential use, both as originally and at present.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.497257-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/9690/40969004/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002371.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002371/756127474d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002371/756127474d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_509_West_Brown.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:House_at_509_West_Brown.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969004","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001921"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/house-at-509-west-brown-86002371/"}