{"nrhp_refnum":"90001188","name":"Bluebonnet Tourist Camp","other_names":["Blue Bonnet Court"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4407 Guadalupe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.31024800700004,"lon":-97.73312709899994,"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 small one-story tourist camp of 11 semi-attached units at 4407 Guadalupe Street in the Hyde Park area of Austin, Texas, built in 1929 by Brydson Lumber Co. for Beth and Joseph Lucas.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a unique example of its property type in Hyde Park and the only surviving Austin tourist camp built before 1930. It served travelers on the main route north of Austin during a period of growing tourism to Central Texas lakes. It keeps a high degree of historic integrity despite deterioration after conversion to apartments.","narrative":"Built in 1929 on Guadalupe Street in Austin's Hyde Park area, this tourist camp consists of two detached frame buildings arranged around an open courtyard. Together they hold 11 one-room units separated by covered spaces for parking cars. The buildings have low-pitched, front-gabled roofs, and their street-facing walls are fronted with petrified rock, a popular local material of the late 1920s and 1930s. Beth and Joseph Lucas hired Brydson Lumber Co. to build the camphouses and garages for $2,500, and the couple lived on site and ran the business until 1937. The next owners renamed it Blue Bonnet Court around 1939. The camp served motorists on the main route north of Austin, including visitors drawn to lakes created by Depression-era public works. It is described as the only surviving Austin tourist facility built before 1930. Although it has deteriorated since conversion to apartments, it retains a high degree of historic integrity.","period_of_significance":"1929","architect_builder":"Brydson Lumber Co.","architectural_style":"Vernacular (tourist camp)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as multiple dwellings (apartments); the form notes deterioration since conversion but retained historic fabric.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.41814-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/9702/40970297/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001188.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001188/72338a0681-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001188/72338a0681-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluebonnet_court_sign.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:Bluebonnet_court_sign.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970297","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bonnet_Court","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4928910"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/bluebonnet-tourist-camp-90001188/"}