{"nrhp_refnum":"90001876","name":"Elliott, Joel, House","other_names":["#11"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"716 N. College St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.06395599500007,"lon":-97.46396688499999,"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 one-story, modified L-plan frame house at 716 North College Street in Belton, Bell County, Texas, built around 1881 for Joel Elliott. It is a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood of North Belton.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be an early and remarkably intact Belton example of Eastlake influence on vernacular houses, adapting Queen Anne and Eastlake styles to a popular house type. It also reflects Belton's prosperity at the start of the cotton boom and the availability of manufactured millwork after the railroad arrived.","narrative":"This one-story frame house at 716 North College Street in Belton, Texas, was built around 1881 for Joel Elliott, a partner in the Ray & Elliott dry goods store downtown. It has a modified L-plan, a hip and gable roof, a projecting front gabled wing and a curved wraparound porch. The design is a simple vernacular version of the Queen Anne style with notable Eastlake details, including turned columns, fretwork, fan brackets, and sunburst and basketweave ornament in the front gable. Windows are elongated two-over-two sash with pedimented hood molds. The house was listed for its architecture. It is described as a remarkably intact early example of how Queen Anne and Eastlake styles were adapted to ordinary house types as milled trim became available. It also reflects Belton's growth when the railroad arrived and the cotton boom began, and it would have contrasted with the Greek Revival houses then common in town. It remains a single dwelling in good condition, with a later garage on the lot.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne-Eastlake","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition with its character-giving features intact; still used as a single dwelling. A later garage 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 02:54:21.773537-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/9682/40968259/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001876.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001876/5811c2377e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001876/5811c2377e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joel_Elliott_House_Belton_Texas_2021.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:Joel_Elliott_House_Belton_Texas_2021.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968259","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000862"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/elliott-joel-house-90001876/"}