{"nrhp_refnum":"87001749","name":"Rhea, John C., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"801 N. College","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.20399836300004,"lon":-96.62120853999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story frame Queen Anne style house at 801 N. College in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, built about 1890 (estimated) for John C. Rhea. It sits in a residential area northwest of the central business district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house combines Queen Anne detailing with a traditional L-plan form and is one of the best local examples. It is described as one of the most outstanding late-nineteenth-century dwellings in McKinney. A reviewer noted that an earlier claim of commercial significance for Rhea was removed from the resubmission.","narrative":"This two-and-a-half-story frame house at 801 N. College in McKinney was built around 1890 for John C. Rhea, a member of a prominent Collin County pioneer family who, with his brother, founded a flour mill at the nearby community of Rhea Mills. The architect and builder are unknown. The house has an asymmetrical plan, weatherboard siding, and a hip roof with gables. Decorative features include stick brackets, turned wood posts, a sunburst motif in the gable ends, cresting, two inset second-story porches, an eyebrow dormer, imbricated shingles, and jig-sawn detailing. A five-bay porch runs across the east elevation. It was listed for its architecture, as Queen Anne detailing applied to a traditional L-plan form and as one of the most outstanding late-nineteenth-century dwellings in McKinney. It remains in residential use and is reported to be in excellent condition with few alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, and the resubmitted form says it remains in excellent condition with remarkably few alterations. 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 02:54:21.81201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/9685/40968597/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001749.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001749/f2af43b071-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001749/f2af43b071-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"William Bruce McFadden","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Calvin_Rhea_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">William Bruce McFadden</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:James_Calvin_Rhea_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968597","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001761"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/rhea-john-c-house-87001749/"}