{"nrhp_refnum":"87000578","name":"Newton House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1013 E. Ninth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.26726928100004,"lon":-97.73014447699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A raised, two-story residence at 1013 E. 9th Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas, built in 1874 by builders Loomis and Christian, in the Robertson Hill area of East Austin.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare and unusually intact Austin example of a transitional, essentially vernacular house combining Greek Revival and High Victorian Italianate traditions. Few Reconstruction-era houses remain in East Austin or elsewhere in the city. Its importance has grown as comparable structures were demolished or altered, and it is prominent in its neighborhood.","narrative":"Built in 1874, this raised two-story house at 1013 E. 9th Street in Austin sits on a corner lot in the Robertson Hill area, on land once owned by the Robertson family. Deed records give its cost as $612.50. Its design blends Greek Revival features, such as a four-room center-hall plan, five-bay facades and a hip roof with a widow's walk, with Italianate details including large eave brackets, chamfered gallery posts and semi-circular gables over the doors. The house was sold to the Newton family in 1884 and again in 1915, and was divided into four apartments around 1940. Restoration in the 1980s rebuilt the porches using structural evidence and an 1887 birdseye view, and returned the house to single-family use. It is listed as a rare, intact example of its transitional style, in a city where few Reconstruction-era houses survive. Its visual prominence in the neighborhood adds to its local importance.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Loomis and Christian (builder)","architectural_style":"Transitional Greek Revival/High Victorian Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"In good physical condition; restored in the 1980s and returned to single-family 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 02:54:21.038097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9702/40970279/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87000578.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000578/dd79f53218-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000578/dd79f53218-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Happywaffle at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_House_(Austin,_Texas).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Happywaffle at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_House_(Austin,_Texas).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970279","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000712"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/newton-house-87000578/"}