{"nrhp_refnum":"87001699","name":"Dowell, J. S., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"608 Parker","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.19320403100005,"lon":-96.62257317499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-10-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame L-plan dwelling at 608 Parker in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, built in 1886 and believed to have been constructed by local builder John Martin for J.S. Dowell, with a rear addition around 1927.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of McKinney's best examples of a 1 1/2-story L-plan dwelling, a common late 19th-century vernacular house type in the city. It is also tied to local builder John Martin and stayed in the Dowell family until 1968. The reviewer recommended acceptance under Criterion C.","narrative":"Built in 1886 at 608 Parker Street in McKinney, this two-story frame house follows an L plan, a vernacular form common in the city in the late 19th century. John Martin, a successful local builder of that era, is believed to have constructed it for J.S. Dowell, and the property remained in the Dowell family until 1968. The house has weatherboard siding, a gable roof with box eaves, and wood double-hung windows with two-over-two lights. A single-door entrance with a transom and a three-bay shed-roofed porch with chamfered wood posts face east, where twin gables with dormers rise above cornice molding over the windows. A rear addition was completed around 1927. It sits in a residential area of mostly late 19th-century houses about five blocks southwest of the central business district. It was recognized as one of McKinney's best surviving examples of the L-plan house type, and it remains in residential use in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Martin, John","architectural_style":"L-plan dwelling","criteria":["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 02:54:21.245868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/67/9685/40968567/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001699.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001699/ed5c4d319a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001699/ed5c4d319a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J.S.DowellHouse1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:J.S.DowellHouse1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968567","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001795"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/dowell-j-s-house-87001699/"}