{"nrhp_refnum":"90001871","name":"Harris, Capt. Andrew Jackson, House","other_names":["#3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1001 W. Tenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.067440865000037,"lon":-97.46873206699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-12-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story limestone I-house with a central hall plan at 1001 West Tenth Street in Belton, Bell County, Texas, built around 1870 by Captain Andrew Jackson Harris.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an outstanding example of the large dwellings built in Belton after the Civil War. It is an architectural hybrid of a late Greek Revival form with a later Queen Anne-style jigsawn gallery added. It is also one of the few surviving early post-Civil War structures in Belton, tied to the town's cattle-boom era development.","narrative":"Built around 1870 at 1001 West Tenth Street in Belton, this two-story limestone house follows the vernacular I-house form, with a symmetrical five-bay facade and a central hall plan. Locally quarried limestone, rusticated quoins and a standing-seam metal roof define the main body, which reflects late Greek Revival style. A full-length, two-story wooden gallery on the east front adds jigsawn brackets and a balustrade in a pattern of circles and darts, a later Queen Anne-inspired update that transforms the facade. Captain Andrew Jackson Harris, a Mississippi-born Confederate cavalry veteran, teacher, lawyer and county school superintendent, built the house and later helped bring Baylor's women's college to Belton. Listed for its architecture, the house is one of the few surviving early post-Civil War buildings in the city and an example of the large residences built by its prominent citizens. The interiors were rebuilt after a period of vacancy, and the house remains a single dwelling.","period_of_significance":"c1870-c1885 (corrected by the Keeper; the form originally stated c. 1870-1910)","architect_builder":"Built by Captain Andrew Jackson Harris; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Central Hall Plan (vernacular I-house); Queen Anne-Eastlake; late Greek Revival with Queen Anne-inspired gallery","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; exterior in excellent condition. Interiors were largely destroyed while the house stood empty and have been reconstructed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.250821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/9682/40968207/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001871.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001871/36c374b24b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001871/36c374b24b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BecMacJo52","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris_Home.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">BecMacJo52</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:Harris_Home.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968207","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000883"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/harris-capt-andrew-jackson-house-90001871/"}