{"nrhp_refnum":"86002488","name":"House at 1423 Sycamore","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1423 Sycamore","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.40424748600003,"lon":-96.85758950199994,"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-story frame house at 1423 Sycamore in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, built around 1900 in a modified L-plan. It sits in the northwest part of the city near the old Trinity University campus.","why_significant":"The inventory form calls it one of the city's finest examples of a modified L-plan dwelling, a later version of the L-plan built in great numbers in Waxahachie around the turn of the century. Its details mark the transition between late Victorian ornament and early twentieth-century Neoclassical Revival styling.","narrative":"This one-story frame house at 1423 Sycamore in Waxahachie was built around 1900 in the northwest part of the city, near the old Trinity University campus. It follows a modified L-plan, a later version of the L-plan that was built in great numbers in the city at the turn of the century. The house has weatherboard siding, a hip roof with gables, double-hung wood windows, and a brick chimney with a corbeled cap. A seven-bay hip-roofed porch on the north side has Doric columns and squared wood balusters. Its details mark the shift between late Victorian and early twentieth-century Neoclassical Revival design. Jig-sawn corner brackets, imbricated shingles and finials reflect the Victorian side, while slender classical columns and large rectangular windows reflect the later style. Stick detailing appears in the porch pediment. The survey describes it as one of the city's finest examples of its type. It remains in residential use and is in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Modified L-plan; transitional late Victorian to Neoclassical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is described as good; the house is still in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.721646-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/9690/40969028/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002488.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002488/7acb88961c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002488/7acb88961c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1423Sycamore1.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:1423Sycamore1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969028","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000647"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/house-at-1423-sycamore-86002488/"}