{"nrhp_refnum":"86002433","name":"Thompson, D. H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"312 Kaufman","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.38646845900007,"lon":-96.84100327799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house at 312 Kaufman in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, built in 1904 for D. H. Thompson in the Neoclassical Revival style. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to commerce. D. H. Thompson built it in 1904 and lived there until his death in 1934. He ran Thompson's Grain Warehouse, a business successful enough that he opened facilities in several other north-central Texas cities. The house is also a symmetrical, simply massed example of Neoclassical Revival design.","narrative":"Built in 1904 at 312 Kaufman Street in Waxahachie, this two-story frame house reflects the Neoclassical Revival style and the career of a local grain merchant. D. H. Thompson erected it and lived there until his death in 1934. He operated Thompson's Grain Warehouse, a business successful enough that he opened facilities in several other cities in north-central Texas. The house has a center-hall plan two rooms deep, a hip roof, wood double-hung windows, and an entrance with transom and sidelights. A three-bay porch with Doric columns spans the front, and a second-story balcony rests on oversized consoles. The symmetrical, simply massed form is dominated by the two-story porch. Its siding is now vinyl or aluminum. A historic photograph of the house appears in a circa 1909 publication, Waxahachie Illustrated. The house sits in a mostly residential area east of the central business district and remains in residential use in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neoclassical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good; present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.6834-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/9691/40969132/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002433.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002433/f297239182-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002433/f297239182-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D.H._Thompson_House.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:D.H._Thompson_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969132","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000652"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/thompson-d-h-house-86002433/"}