{"nrhp_refnum":"86002424","name":"Waxahachie Lumber Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"123 Kaufman","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.38597487100003,"lon":-96.84377847899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A lumberyard complex of five buildings at 123 Kaufman in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, beside the railroad tracks just east of the central business district. The buildings date from about 1885 to about 1914, and the site has been a lumberyard since about 1880.","why_significant":"The complex is an unusual survival: four of its five buildings keep their 19th-century appearance, while most lumberyards were remodelled or rebuilt. The youngest building, the office (Building A), is a rare adaptation of the Bungaloid style for commercial use. The yard supplied lumber for many significant buildings during the city's most prosperous period.","narrative":"This lumberyard at 123 Kaufman in Waxahachie consists of five frame buildings beside the railroad tracks, east of the downtown core. The site has housed the city's oldest lumber business since about 1880. The business began as a branch of a Houston firm, later became the William F. Lewis Lumberyard, then the Waxahachie Lumber Company, and finally the Rockwell Lumber Company, which operated until the 1970s. Four buildings, including two lumber sheds, an early office used as a warehouse, and a store with a boomtown parapet, keep their nineteenth-century appearance. The fifth, an office built about 1914, adapts the bungalow form to commercial use, with wide overhanging eaves, triangular braces and brick piers running from gable to ground. The yard supplied materials for many notable buildings during the city's most prosperous years, from the arrival of the railroad in 1887 to about the First World War era, and was a local institution for nearly a century.","period_of_significance":"1885 - c. 1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungaloid style (Building A, the office)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use listed as vacant, condition fair, in the 1985 inventory form; the lumberyard closed in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.248897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/9691/40969128/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002424.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002424/c64a33a993-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002424/c64a33a993-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waxahachie_Lumber_Company.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:Waxahachie_Lumber_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969128","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000109"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/waxahachie-lumber-company-86002424/"}