{"nrhp_refnum":"90001535","name":"Horton-Porter, Goldie, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2402 Windsor Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.289538234000076,"lon":-97.75647539199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-10-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Spanish Colonial Revival house at 2402 Windsor Road in the Enfield neighborhood of Austin, Texas, built in 1930-1931 for mathematician Goldie Horton, designed by architect Walter T. Rolfe and built by Robert O. Smith.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the finest Spanish Colonial Revival examples in Austin, with unusual attention to detail and craftsmanship (Criterion C). It is also tied to Goldie Horton Porter, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and one of its earliest female professors (Criterion B). It is a rare early work by Rolfe, who later chaired the university's architecture department.","narrative":"Built in 1930 and 1931 on a triangular hillside lot about a mile west of the Texas Capitol, this stucco-over-brick house at 2402 Windsor Road in Austin follows the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It has a red tile roof, glazed tiles, wrought iron, and a series of terraces and patios. Inside, a double-height living room has a painted beamed ceiling. Architect Walter T. Rolfe, then a University of Texas faculty member, designed it for mathematician Goldie Horton, who later married fellow mathematician Milton B. Porter. Rolfe worked symbols of her field into the design, including two concrete roundels on the front facade and numbers and symbols painted on the ceiling beams. Horton was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and taught there for decades. The house was listed for its architecture and for its link to her career in education. It remained in her occupancy until the early 1970s and has seen only modest alterations since.","period_of_significance":"1930-1940","architect_builder":"Walter T. Rolfe, Architect; Robert O. Smith, Builder","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; described as sympathetically maintained with minimal alterations and exceptional integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.238208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/9737/40973729/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001535.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001535/f1e552fa21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001535/f1e552fa21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldie_Horton_Porter_House_Austin_Texas_2024.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:Goldie_Horton_Porter_House_Austin_Texas_2024.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973729","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002313"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/horton-porter-goldie-house-90001535/"}