{"nrhp_refnum":"90001175","name":"Hyde Park Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Old Hyde Park Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3915 Ave. B","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.303946731000053,"lon":-97.73466391499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame vernacular church at 3915 Avenue B in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas, built in 1896 for the Hyde Park Baptist congregation and moved to its present site in 1921.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be a significant local example of nonresidential vernacular architecture and the only ecclesiastical building remaining from Hyde Park's initial period of development. Its simple form, frame construction and modest detailing typify small late 19th-century Texas churches, and its scale suits the neighborhood's frame houses.","narrative":"Built in 1896 by members of the Hyde Park Baptist congregation, this small frame church was designed by Reverend W.D. Beverly on land he and his wife donated. It has a rectangular sanctuary clad in weatherboard, with a two-story entry tower under a pyramidal hipped roof and a simple denticulated molding as its only ornament. When the Baptists outgrew the building, it was bought and moved to West 40th Street to help establish a Presbyterian congregation, a step that also pushed a saloon out of the neighborhood. In 1921 it moved again to Avenue B and was lengthened to five bays. A classroom wing added after World War II is considered noncontributing. The building is valued as the only church remaining from Hyde Park's earliest development, and as a typical modest Texas Baptist-style church with a tower-fronted sanctuary. It continues to serve as a church today.","period_of_significance":"1896-1921","architect_builder":"unknown (plans delineated by Reverend W.D. Beverly; built by church members)","architectural_style":"Vernacular; rectangular plan ecclesiastical building","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a church; a postwar frame classroom addition at the rear is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.957606-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/9702/40970293/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001175.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001175/cbf4987444-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001175/cbf4987444-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyde_park_presbyterian_church_2009.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyde_park_presbyterian_church_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970293","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Presbyterian_Church_(Austin,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5953720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/hyde-park-presbyterian-church-90001175/"}