{"nrhp_refnum":"86002474","name":"West End Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Central, W. Water, Monroe, Madison and W. Jefferson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.39079340950005,"lon":-96.856597080607,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 77 acres in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, along the 400 to 1300 blocks of W. Main, 400 to 700 blocks of W. Jefferson, and parts of S. Hawkins and W. Franklin streets. It was developed mainly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an excellent cross-section of domestic architectural styles and plan types from Waxahachie's most prosperous period, including the city's finest Queen Anne and Neoclassical Revival houses. It also holds some of the city's oldest surviving houses, a library, a former church and a Masonic temple. It is further noted for its planned 1889 West End Addition, with its park and circular drive, and for how well the neighborhood has been maintained.","narrative":"West End is a 77-acre residential neighborhood west of downtown Waxahachie, Texas, laid out along W. Main and W. Jefferson streets. Part of it lies in the city's first subdivision, the Town Addition, and the western part was platted in 1889 as the West End Addition, with uniform lots, a circular drive and an elliptical park on Main Street. Four modest houses from the 1850s to 1880s survive, among the oldest in the city. Most buildings date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when rail-shipped lumber let builders construct grander homes. The district includes the Dunlap-Simpson House, a leading local Queen Anne example, and the Neoclassical Revival Sims Library and Mahoney House. It also contains four-square houses, bungalows, a former Presbyterian church and a Masonic temple. The district was listed for its architecture, community planning, education and social history, and for the care residents have given its historic character over the decades.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899; 1900-1935","architect_builder":"Varies by property; the form names S. Weymes Smith (architect of the Sims Library) and Dennis Mahoney (builder of the Mahoney House).","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Neoclassical Revival, bungalow, four-square and vernacular house forms","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is described as good; the neighborhood is described as remarkably well maintained. Present uses include private residences, a library and a park.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.572997-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/9691/40969112/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002474.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002474/6862bd859b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002474/6862bd859b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_End_Historic_District.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:West_End_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Historic_District_(Waxahachie,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7985090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/west-end-historic-district-86002474/"}