{"nrhp_refnum":"86002538","name":"Sengele, Alphonse T., House","other_names":["I-246"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"502 E. Juan Linn","address_restricted":false,"city":"Victoria","county":"Victoria County","state":"TX","lat":28.796203141000035,"lon":-97.00258454299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Queen Anne-detailed I-house at 502 East Juan Linn in Victoria, Texas, originally built in 1868 at 102 East Forrest and moved to its present site in 1898.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine local example of Queen Anne detail under Criterion C in the area of Architecture. The 1898 porch, with jigsawn woodwork and chamfered posts, reflects Queen Anne styling, while the I-house form and symmetry preserve the original 1868 classical design. The building retains its integrity at the new site, and the move occurred more than 50 years ago.","narrative":"This two-story frame house at 502 East Juan Linn in Victoria began life in 1868 at 102 East Forrest, built for Alphonse T. Sengele. He ran a hardware and tinning shop on the ground floor and lived upstairs. In 1898 Sengele moved the building to its present location east of the central business district and added a three-bay, two-story porch. That porch carries Queen Anne details, including chamfered posts and jigsawn brackets and balustrade, while the house itself keeps its earlier classical character: an I-house plan on brick piers, a symmetrical five-bay south front, weatherboard siding and a bell cast hipped roof with box eaves and crown molding. Windows are two-over-two on the first floor and six-over-six on the second. The house was listed for its architecture as a fine local example of Queen Anne detailing. Because the move happened more than fifty years ago, the 1898 site is treated as historic. It remains a single-family home in good condition.","period_of_significance":"1868, 1898","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and retaining integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association; still used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.631303-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/9704/40970428/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002538.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002538/051c8e994b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002538/051c8e994b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ProfReader","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sengele_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ProfReader</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:Sengele_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970428","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000901"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/victoria-county/sengele-alphonse-t-house-86002538/"}