{"nrhp_refnum":"86002596","name":"Fox, Jacob, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"708 W. Power","address_restricted":false,"city":"Victoria","county":"Victoria County","state":"TX","lat":28.804990058000044,"lon":-97.01102210699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame Victorian dwelling with a one-story rear ell at 708 W. Power in Victoria, Texas, dated to about 1865/1890 with a main house built in 1892, attributed to W. C. Barnes.","why_significant":"The house is noted for its Victorian architecture and its link to entrepreneur and industrialist Jacob Fox. Fox started the J. Fox Gin and Grist Mill in the 1880s and built this house in 1892 beside his gin. His earlier two-room house was kept as the rear kitchen ell.","narrative":"This two-story Victorian house at 708 W. Power in Victoria, Texas, was built in 1892 for Jacob Fox, a local businessman who started the J. Fox Gin and Grist Mill in the 1880s. Fox first lived in a small two-room house, which was later kept as the rear kitchen ell of his new dwelling. He ran the gin next to his home for more than twenty years. The wood-frame house has weatherboard and wood shingle siding, a truncated hip roof with gable extensions, and a roof deck with turned balusters. Box eaves carry jig-sawn brackets, and imbricated shingles fill the gable ends. A three-bay, two-story porch sits in the southeast ell, and two-story window bays project from the south and east elevations. Windows are wood sash, double hung, with one-over-one lights. The house is recognized for its Victorian architecture and for its association with Fox's work as an entrepreneur and industrialist. It remains in residential use and is in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W. C. Barnes","architectural_style":"Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and in residential use; the inventory sheet marks it as moved from its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.940758-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/9705/40970517/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86002596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002596/cf085fb3fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002596/cf085fb3fa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ProfReader","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:708_West_Power_Street.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:708_West_Power_Street.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970517","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002400"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/victoria-county/fox-jacob-house-86002596/"}