{"nrhp_refnum":"86002377","name":"House at 502 South Orient","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"502 S. Orient","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stamford","county":"Jones County","state":"TX","lat":32.940429892000054,"lon":-99.79496248499999,"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 large two-story frame house at 502 S. Orient in Stamford, Jones County, Texas, probably built between 1907 and 1910, likely around 1907-1908. Its builder is not named.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a good, nearly unaltered example of the large early twentieth-century residences built in Stamford's first two decades. It may be the most substantial example of the American Foursquare style in the city. The form also suggests a possible link to nearby Stamford College, but the federal reviewer found that claim unacceptable.","narrative":"Standing at 502 S. Orient in Stamford, this large two-story frame house was probably built between 1907 and 1910. It has a hipped roof with composition shingles and boxed eaves, and four hipped dormers light the attic story. A wide hipped-roof porch runs across the front, supported by groups of two or three Doric columns on square wooden pedestals and finished with a wooden balustrade. Lozenge windows of various sizes appear around the house, along with a two-story bay and a bracketed oriel window. The house was first mapped by the Sanborn Company in 1922. It was listed as a well-preserved, representative example of the substantial middle- or upper-class homes built during Stamford's first two decades of growth. Reviewers considered it the most significant example of the American Foursquare style in the city. A suggested connection to Stamford College, which occupied land across the street, was not accepted as a basis for significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"American Foursquare (vernacular early twentieth-century residence)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as unaltered and in good condition; the upper part of the chimney flue has been removed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.177939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/9697/40969726/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002377.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002377/f39d31460a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002377/f39d31460a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:502SouthOrient1_(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:502SouthOrient1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969726","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000570"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/jones-county/house-at-502-south-orient-86002377/"}