{"nrhp_refnum":"88002129","name":"May-Hickey House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"FM 682 1.7 mi. S of jct. with TX 111","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yoakum","county":"DeWitt County","state":"TX","lat":29.26112960300003,"lon":-97.14466177999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1-1/2 story vernacular hewn-log dogtrot house on three acres of ranch land off FM 682 near Yoakum, DeWitt County, Texas, built about 1848 and later moved and modified, with a barn from about 1900 and a 1930s windmill and cistern.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest recorded log structure in the DeWitt County area and a rare surviving link to early Anglo-American settlement in South Central Texas. It is a finely crafted, largely intact example of the dogrun log dwelling with Louisiana house form characteristics. Together with its rural complex, it documents vernacular building traditions and changing rural society.","narrative":"Near Yoakum in DeWitt County, Texas, a hewn-log dogtrot house sits on three acres of former ranch land beside FM 682. Built about 1848 for John Joseph and Catherine May, it has two 16-foot-square log pens separated by an open center passage, with porches and shed rooms front and rear. Roman numerals on the logs show it was taken apart and reassembled at its present site, probably after 1863, when the Hickey family owned it. They are thought to have added weatherboard siding and enclosed the rear porch. Tree-ring testing showed most logs were cut in 1847 and 1848. The house later served tenants and then storage, lost its porch and chimneys, and was restored between 1981 and 1983 using archeology and documentary research. A barn from about 1900 and a 1930s windmill and cistern complete the complex. It is described as the oldest recorded log structure in the county and a rare example of early settler building traditions.","period_of_significance":"1848","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular log dogtrot (dogrun) plan with Louisiana house form characteristics","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored in 1983; the form lists the property as unoccupied and vacant, with about 85% of the original material preserved.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.08721-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/9717/40971785/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/88002129.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971785","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000049"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dewitt-county/may-hickey-house-88002129/"}