{"nrhp_refnum":"88002566","name":"Beck, Frederick, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1231 Culberson","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Angelo","county":"Tom Green County","state":"TX","lat":31.462260619000062,"lon":-100.41791914799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small farm property at 1231 Culberson in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, with a 1-1/2-story brick house and a one-story frame gabled barn, dated 1908? or 1913. It is now surrounded by residential development.","why_significant":"The property belonged to pioneer settler and merchant Frederick Beck, who became an important San Angelo business figure by 1910 through his meat, fish and oyster market. The current house replaced an earlier one that burned. The nomination calls it a relatively rare example of small-scale vernacular architecture for this period of San Angelo's history and a focal point of the area.","narrative":"This farm property at 1231 Culberson in San Angelo, Texas, preserves a modest brick house and a frame barn within a neighborhood that has since filled with residential development. The 1-1/2-story house is built of red brick with cast stone trim, an irregular plan and a complex roof combining hipped and gabled forms. An L-shaped porch rests on square brick columns, and a small gable marks the entry, which has sidelights and a transom. The barn is frame with unusual pressed metal sheets, and a low white wooden picket fence surrounds the property. It belonged to Frederick Beck, a pioneer settler and merchant who arrived in the 1880s or 1890s and ran a meat, fish and oyster market from the Fred Beck Building on South Chadbourne Street. A family member believes an earlier house and barn predated 1908, but the house burned and was replaced in 1913. It is regarded locally as a rare small-scale vernacular example from this era of San Angelo's history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition is described as good; the site is original and now sits in a residential neighborhood.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.120191-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/9702/40970225/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/88002566.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002566/194cf30235-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002566/194cf30235-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Marklack","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beck_Farm_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marklack</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:Beck_Farm_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970225","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001359"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tom-green-county/beck-frederick-farm-88002566/"}