{"nrhp_refnum":"87001671","name":"Burrus-Finch House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"405 N. Waddill","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.20086043400005,"lon":-96.62687083799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Prairie style house built in 1914 at 405 N. Waddill in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, with a two-story garage/apartment behind it, on about 1.5 acres in a residential area of early 20th-century houses.","why_significant":"It is considered one of McKinney's best and virtually unaltered examples of Prairie School architecture. It is also associated with J. Perry Burrus, founder of the Burrus Milling Co. and the Tex-O-Can Flour Mills, a leading business figure of early 20th-century McKinney.","narrative":"Built in 1914 at 405 N. Waddill in McKinney, this two-story brick house reflects the Prairie School style. It has a hip roof with box eaves, wood double-hung windows with six-over-one lights, continuous window groupings, and a broad porch with brick piers across the west side. Wide overhanging eaves emphasize the horizontal lines of the house, and a two-story garage/apartment with similar details sits behind it. J. Perry Burrus, founder of the Burrus Milling Co. and the Tex-O-Can Flour Mills, built the house. He was among McKinney's foremost business leaders of the early twentieth century and took part in nearly all of the town's major industrial concerns. In 1921 he sold the house to Henry A. Finch, who served as mayor and donated land for a city park. Finch's wife Fannie was the first woman on the local school board, and a school was named for her. The house is virtually unaltered and is regarded as one of the city's best Prairie School examples.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; contractor Dewey May","architectural_style":"Prairie style dwelling (Prairie School)","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Present condition is listed as good and the present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.908029-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/9686/40968623/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001671.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001671/71b3f53221-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001671/71b3f53221-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Geeklet42","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:405_N_Waddill,_McKinney,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Geeklet42</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:405_N_Waddill,_McKinney,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968623","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000776"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/burrus-finch-house-87001671/"}