{"nrhp_refnum":"86002498","name":"Phillips, E. F., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"902 W. Marvin","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waxahachie","county":"Ellis County","state":"TX","lat":32.39659177000004,"lon":-96.85288052699997,"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 two-story frame house at 902 W. Marvin in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, built about 1915 in the Trinity Heights area northwest of the central business district. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The inventory form describes it as one of the city's best examples of Prairie School architecture, citing its low-pitched roof, broad eaves and horizontal emphasis. It was built for E. F. Phillips, an insurance agent, and in 1923 was purchased by P. A. Chapman, a banker. The reviewer accepted it as locally significant architecturally under Criterion C.","narrative":"This two-story frame house at 902 W. Marvin in Waxahachie was built around 1915 in the Trinity Heights area, northwest of the central business district. It follows a bungalow plan and has weatherboard siding, a hipped roof with gables covered in composition shingles, and wood double-hung windows. A one-bay gabled porch on the south side rests on tapered box supports set on brick piers, and a brick chimney rises from the interior. Survey recorders considered it one of the city's best examples of Prairie School architecture. The style shows in the broad eaves under the long, sweeping hipped roof, the strong horizontal emphasis, multiple roof planes, separate roofs over the first and second stories, continuous porch coping, and an unroofed terrace. E. F. Phillips, an insurance agent, had the house built, and in 1923 banker P. A. Chapman bought it. Its architect is unknown. It was judged locally significant for its architecture and remained a residence with good condition in 1985.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Prairie","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and still used as a residence at the time of the 1985 survey.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.206112-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/9690/40969056/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002498.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002498/7400f15e08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002498/7400f15e08-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_House_Waxahachie_Texas_2019.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_House_Waxahachie_Texas_2019.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010757","name":"West Marvin Avenue-Patrick Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/west-marvin-avenue-patrick-street-historic-district-100010757/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969056","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/ellis-county/phillips-e-f-house-86002498/"}