{"nrhp_refnum":"88001916","name":"Wise-Fielding House and Carriage House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"418 W. Washington","address_restricted":false,"city":"Paris","county":"Lamar County","state":"TX","lat":33.656155513000044,"lon":-101.48545539099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne style 2½-story brick residence and its frame 1½-story carriage house at 418 W. Washington in Paris, Lamar County, Texas, built in 1887 on a roughly four-acre lot.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the more noteworthy Queen Anne houses surviving in North Texas. Its brick construction and sophisticated detailing set it above most houses of its style and date in Texas. The substantial surviving outbuilding, the carriage house, is called a rare survival. It was built by prominent cotton merchant W.B. Wise, whose connections with Britain may have influenced the design.","narrative":"This property in Paris, Texas, consists of a Queen Anne style brick house and a frame carriage house at 418 W. Washington. The residence rises 2½ stories and has an asymmetrical plan, a two-story bay window on a projecting wing west of the entrance, paired windows in a hipped projection to the east, and mostly one-over-one windows. A Bungaloid porch replaced the original Victorian verandah at an unknown date, but the interior is described as intact and significant. The carriage house is a symmetrical 1½-story frame building with a steeply pitched roof broken by a center gable. Cotton merchant W.B. Wise built the house in 1887, and his strong connections with Britain may have influenced its design. Its brick construction and detailed finish make it more sophisticated than most Texas houses of its style and date. After a 1916 fire it was sold to the Fielding family. The servants' quarters and a large octagonal structure at the rear are gone, so the surviving carriage house is a rare example.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Physical condition listed as fair; the Fielding family occupied the house until recently, and present use is given as \"vacant?\". The Victorian verandah was replaced by a Bungaloid porch at an unknown date.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.390073-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/9698/40969809/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/88001916.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001916/a316226c15-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001916/a316226c15-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dianna Markham","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wise_-_Fielding_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianna Markham</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:Wise_-_Fielding_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969809","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107321970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/lamar-county/wise-fielding-house-and-carriage-house-88001916/"}