{"nrhp_refnum":"87001636","name":"Kemp, E. A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"606 W. Seventeenth","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bryan","county":"Brazos County","state":"TX","lat":30.68258998400006,"lon":-96.36723487299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame bungalow at 606 W. 17th Street in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, built around 1924 (estimated) on its original site in a residential area of modest early 20th-century dwellings in the city's northwest quadrant.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the best remaining local examples of bungalow architecture. It was also the home of the E. A. Kemp family from the mid-1920s. Kemp is perhaps the best known Black educator in Bryan, and the Kemp Jr.-Sr. High School was named for him.","narrative":"Built around 1924 at 606 W. 17th Street in Bryan, Texas, this two-story frame house is an example of the airplane bungalow form, with a single room on the second story. It has horizontal siding, a gable roof with composition shingles, exposed rafter ends, and wood double-hung windows with one-over-one lights. A gabled porch across the south elevation and a porte cochere rest on short tapered box columns set on elongated brick piers, and a brick chimney rises from the roof. The house sits in a neighborhood of modest early twentieth-century dwellings in the northwest part of the city. It was listed for two reasons: its architecture and its link to local Black history. The survey calls it one of the best remaining local examples of bungalow design. From the mid-1920s it was the home of the E. A. Kemp family. Kemp is regarded as perhaps the best known Black educator in Bryan, and the Kemp Junior-Senior High School was named for him. The house remains residential, in fair condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow (airplane bungalow form)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present condition is listed as fair, and 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 02:54:21.815393-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/9684/40968485/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001636.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968485","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001708"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/brazos-county/kemp-e-a-house-87001636/"}