{"nrhp_refnum":"90001892","name":"Miller, J. Z., House","other_names":["#30"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"804 N. Penelope St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.063179414000047,"lon":-97.45936803499995,"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 brick and limestone house at 804 North Penelope in Belton, Bell County, Texas, built around 1895 by Dallas architect W. H. Harrell for Joseph Zacariah Miller, Sr.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C in architecture as an example of the late Victorian blending of styles, with classical formality in its windows, massing and quoins alongside an asymmetrical plan and restrained Queen Anne detail. It is also one of the largest and most expensively detailed houses built during Belton's cotton boom. Its brick and limestone construction is unusual, since most 1890s Belton houses were wood frame.","narrative":"Built around 1895, this two-story brick and limestone house at 804 North Penelope in Belton was designed by Dallas architect W. H. Harrell for Joseph Zacariah Miller, Sr. Miller was a Confederate colonel, a founder of the mercantile firm Miller, Chamberlain and Company, a founder of the Belton National Bank, and president of the Texas National Bankers Association from 1895 to 1900. The house has an asymmetrical plan, a hipped-and-gabled pressed metal roof with finials and cresting, limestone quoins, lintels and sills, fish scale shingles in the gables, and a wraparound porch with turned wood columns. Its design departs from ornate Queen Anne style toward classical formality, yet keeps some Victorian ornament. As one of the largest and most expensively detailed homes of Belton's cotton boom, and one of few brick houses of the 1890s there, it reflects the town's late nineteenth-century prosperity. It remains in very good condition.","period_of_significance":"c. 1895","architect_builder":"W. H. Harrell (architect, Dallas)","architectural_style":"Italianate; Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in very good condition with minor interior and exterior alterations; still used as 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 02:54:21.474509-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/9682/40968241/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001892.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968241","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001553"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/miller-j-z-house-90001892/"}