{"nrhp_refnum":"90000445","name":"East Brenham","other_names":["Roughly bounded by Crockett, Embrey, E. Academy, Ross, E. Ma"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Crockett, Embrey, E. Academy, Ross, E. Main, Market, Sycamore, Cottonwood, Botts, McIntyre, and Alma","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brenham","county":"Washington County","state":"TX","lat":30.170919059000056,"lon":-96.39379745428349,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about nine city blocks (roughly 58 acres) northeast of downtown Brenham, Washington County, Texas, with 131 resources, mostly 1-story frame houses built c.1875-1940, plus a church and a few commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under Criterion C for its cohesiveness as a late 19th and early 20th century residential neighborhood. Many examples of domestic architecture survive, most retaining integrity. It reflects Brenham's residential growth at the turn of the century, at its height of development.","narrative":"East Brenham is a residential neighborhood of about nine city blocks northeast of downtown Brenham, Texas. It holds 131 resources, of which 79 contribute to its character. Most are 1-story frame houses, many of them bungalows, on small lots, with larger 2-story and 2 1/2-story frame and brick homes on bigger lots. A frame Gothic Revival church, built in 1898 by Alex Griffen, and several small commercial buildings are also included. Styles range from Victorian and Victorian L-plan cottages to Classical Revival, Foursquare, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean, Art Moderne and Bungalow. Two Victorian houses on East Main and East Academy, also built by Griffen, have cypress siding scored to look like stone. Local architect Moses Ginn designed several of the brick residences. The district was listed for its cohesive collection of houses dating from about 1875 to 1941, which shows the growth Brenham experienced around the turn of the century. Modern apartments, offices and altered houses are counted as noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"c.1875-1941","architect_builder":"Alex Griffen (builder); Moses Ginn (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century Revivals/Late 19th and early 20th century movements (Victorian, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, American Foursquare, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean, Art Moderne, Bungalow)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current functions include single dwellings, a religious structure and commercial uses; some houses have synthetic siding or replacement windows and porch columns.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.690152-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/9706/40970663/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90000445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000445/ac2fb6f75b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000445/ac2fb6f75b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastbrenham1color.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Eastbrenham1color.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970663","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Brenham","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5327936"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/washington-county/east-brenham-90000445/"}