{"nrhp_refnum":"90001880","name":"Morey House","other_names":["#15"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"328 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.05943108300005,"lon":-97.46278195399998,"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 2-story, L-plan frame Queen Anne house with Eastlake details at 328 North Main Street, near the Courthouse Square in central Belton, Bell County, Texas, built about 1895 by an unknown builder.","why_significant":"The house is one of the largest and best preserved Queen Anne houses in Belton and typifies the popular late 19th-century Queen Anne style. It reflects the town's prosperity during the cotton boom around the turn of the century and the availability of mass-marketed house plans and manufactured details.","narrative":"Built about 1895 at 328 North Main Street in Belton, the Morey House is a 2-story, L-plan frame dwelling with a long, ornate 2-story gallery across its east-facing front. The main roof is hipped, with gables projecting over the wing ends, and a pedimented gable tops the chamfered front bay. The gallery has turned posts, carved balusters and scroll-shaped brackets in the Eastlake style, and the walls combine ship-lap siding with fish-scale shingles. It once belonged to a row of large Victorian residences along North Main Street. The Morey family lived there until 1914, when Frederick William Guffy, long-time Belton postmaster, bought it. Around 1950 it was divided into apartments, and it has since been rehabilitated. It is recognized as one of the largest and best preserved Queen Anne houses in Belton, and as a reminder of the town's prosperity during the cotton boom years.","period_of_significance":"c. 1895","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Eastlake","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remodeled into apartments about 1950, with exterior stairs added; recently rehabilitated. Historic and current function is a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.634018-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/9682/40968261/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001880.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001880/97eee62ffd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001880/97eee62ffd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morey_house_2008.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:Morey_house_2008.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968261","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000887"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/morey-house-90001880/"}