{"nrhp_refnum":"86002441","name":"Sims, O. B., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1408 W. Main","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.39785420900006,"lon":-96.86348077899999,"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-and-a-half-story, L-plan frame dwelling at 1408 W. Main Street in the West End of Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, dated to 1898. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an outstanding example of the L-plan, the most common regional house type, which it describes as a Victorian elaboration of the traditional two-room, center-passage plan. Most of its original fabric is intact. It is described as one of the city's finest examples of a traditional house form combined with Queen Anne style details. It was built for O. B. Sims, a successful cotton broker.","narrative":"This one-and-a-half-story frame house at 1408 W. Main Street in Waxahachie was built in 1898 for O. B. Sims, a successful cotton broker who owned it until the 1930s. It follows an L-plan, a Victorian variation on the older two-room house with a center passage. Weatherboard siding covers the walls, and a steeply pitched hipped roof with cross gables caps the house. A six-bay L-shaped porch with turned wood posts wraps the south elevation. Queen Anne details include jig-sawn bargeboard on the facade gable and dormer, spindlework porch frieze, art glass, imbricated shingles in the gable, and a wood hood over the entrance. The nomination describes it as an outstanding example of the most common regional plan type and one of the city's best illustrations of a traditional form combined with Queen Anne styling. Its original fabric is largely intact. The house stands in a mixed residential and commercial area on the west end of the city and remains a residence in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"L-plan with Queen Anne details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present condition is listed as good, and the 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 02:54:21.869194-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/9689/40968988/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002441.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002441/cbd1fb01f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002441/cbd1fb01f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O.B._Sims_House_Wiki_(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:O.B._Sims_House_Wiki_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968988","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001971"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/sims-o-b-house-86002441/"}