{"nrhp_refnum":"88001957","name":"Breeden-Runge Wholesale Grocery Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"108 N. Frederick William","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cuero","county":"DeWitt County","state":"TX","lat":29.092591467000034,"lon":-97.29542569199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick warehouse and office building at 108 N. Frederick William in Cuero, De Witt County, Texas, built in 1911 and designed by Jules Leffland.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Cuero's best preserved and most architecturally significant warehouse building. It was built for the Breeden-Runge Wholesale Grocery Co., one of the most important commercial enterprises in early 20th-century Cuero, with a distribution network reaching much of southeast Texas. It is cited under commerce and architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1911 at 108 N. Frederick William in Cuero, this one-story, load-bearing brick warehouse was designed by Jules Leffland. It has a flat roof with a tar-and-gravel covering, a double-door entrance on the east side, wood-sash windows, segmental-arched openings with voussoirs, and a wood canopy on wrought-iron supports. A brick parapet carries corbeled and decorative brickwork. The building originally housed the offices of the Breeden-Runge Wholesale Grocery Co., which operated there until 1939, when the Victoria-based Groce-Parrish Wholesale Grocery Co., later Groce-Wearden, took ownership. It sits near a railroad spur and the textile mill in a mixed commercial, industrial and residential area northwest of the central business district. The listing recognizes it for commerce and architecture. Breeden-Runge was among several wholesale grocery businesses based in Cuero, and arguably the most successful. Today the building is regarded as the city's best preserved and most architecturally significant warehouse, and it remains in good condition with commercial use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Leffland, Jules","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, with an addition at the northeast corner and a concrete loading dock; present use is commercial.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.421447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/9688/40968838/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/88001957.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001957/e0bce8806d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001957/e0bce8806d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breeden_Runge_Grocery_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breeden_Runge_Grocery_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968838","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeden-Runge_Wholesale_Grocery_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960219"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dewitt-county/breeden-runge-wholesale-grocery-company-building-88001957/"}