{"nrhp_refnum":"87001704","name":"Dulaney, Joe E., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"311 S. Chestnut","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.19482579800007,"lon":-96.61309138299998,"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 one-and-a-half-story frame L-plan dwelling at 311 S. Chestnut in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, built about 1875 for Joe E. Dulaney. The architect or builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as one of the oldest L-plan houses in McKinney and one of the city's finest examples of a common late-19th-century vernacular house type. It was built for Dulaney, a physician who came to Texas from Tennessee soon after the Civil War. The house remains virtually unaltered and has been a museum since 1972.","narrative":"Built about 1875 at 311 S. Chestnut in McKinney, this one-and-a-half-story frame house was constructed for Joe E. Dulaney, a physician who moved to Texas from Tennessee soon after the Civil War. Its L-shaped plan, weatherboard siding, gable roof with composition shingles, and wood-sash windows are typical of a vernacular house type common in the late nineteenth century. A three-bay hip-roofed porch on the west elevation has turned-wood posts, squared balusters and jigsawn brackets, and pedimented architraves surround most door and window openings. The house is described as virtually unaltered and as one of the oldest L-plan houses in McKinney, and it is regarded as one of the city's finest examples of its type. It sits in a mostly residential area of late nineteenth-century houses, one block southeast of the new courthouse. Since 1972 it has served as a museum, and its condition is recorded as good.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"L-plan dwelling","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present condition is stated as good, and the house has served as a museum since 1972.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.247841-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/9685/40968569/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001704.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001704/b794d94487-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001704/b794d94487-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JoeEDulaneyHouse3.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:JoeEDulaneyHouse3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968569","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001779"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/dulaney-joe-e-house-87001704/"}