{"nrhp_refnum":"90001293","name":"Nash, William R., House","other_names":["Sowania"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215 Westmoreland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.74096907300003,"lon":-95.38457580999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A grand 2 1/2-story wood-frame Colonial Revival house at 215 Westmoreland Avenue in the Westmoreland neighborhood of Houston, Texas, completed in 1907, with a two-story carriage house at the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the most intact example of an elaborate Colonial Revival house still occupied as a single-family residence in Houston. It is also the best surviving work of the architectural firm H.C. Cooke & Co. It stands in Westmoreland, Houston's first planned \"private place\" subdivision (1902), and meets Criterion C for architecture and its planned setting.","narrative":"Built in 1907 on two lots at 215 Westmoreland Avenue in Houston, this large wood-frame house shows the Colonial Revival style at its most elaborate. A two-story portico with four colossal fluted Corinthian columns and a prominent pediment crowns the south front, set over balustraded porches on both floors that wrap around the east side. Inside are a columned entrance hall, a curving staircase, art glass windows, pocket doors and 14-foot ceilings on the first floor. A two-story carriage house echoes the main house. H.C. Cooke & Co. designed it and Albert Baring built it. The nomination ranks it as the best surviving example of a house type once common in Houston, where more than 50 such houses were built between 1903 and 1914 and fewer than 10 remain. It also sits in Westmoreland, the city's first planned private-place subdivision, laid out in 1902. It has had few alterations since completion.","period_of_significance":"1907","architect_builder":"H.C. Cooke & Co., Architects; Albert Baring, builder","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (described in the text as Colonial Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still occupied as a single-family residence and undergoing careful rehabilitation; the carriage house is being converted to a garage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:20.94195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/9722/40972280/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001293.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001293/0bd8e06daa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001293/0bd8e06daa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_R._Nash_House_(HDR).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_R._Nash_House_(HDR).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000859","name":"Westmoreland Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/westmoreland-historic-district-94000859/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972280","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/nash-william-r-house-90001293/"}