{"nrhp_refnum":"90001936","name":"House at 730 N. Beal St.","other_names":["#6"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"730 N. Beal St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.062610667000058,"lon":-97.45707154999997,"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 frame vernacular house at 730 North Beal Street in Belton, Bell County, Texas, built in the 1870s on a center passage plan with Greek Revival-influenced details. It has a side gable and a rear gable wing addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of the center passage house, once a very common dwelling type in 19th-century Texas. It reflects Belton's growth during the post-Civil War cattle boom. Its modest Greek Revival-style porch shows how vernacular builders borrowed from high styles. Most similar houses in the region have been razed or heavily altered, so it is a significant survivor.","narrative":"Built in the 1870s, this one-story frame house on North Beal Street in Belton follows the center passage plan, a common dwelling type in nineteenth-century Texas. It has a side gable, lapped wood siding, and a rubble limestone foundation and chimneys at both gable ends. A gable wing was added off the rear. The front porch has two boxed columns supporting an entablature and a shed roof, a modest nod to Greek Revival style. Windows are symmetrically arranged six-over-six wood sash with simple hood moldings. The house was listed for architecture. It shows how local builders adapted high-style details to a practical vernacular form, and it dates to the cattle boom that followed the Civil War. Similar houses were once common in the region, but most have been demolished or significantly altered, which makes this largely intact and well-preserved example notable. It remains a single-family home in good condition with only minor alterations.","period_of_significance":"c1870 (corrected from the originally stated c. 1870-1900)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Center Passage (Other); Greek Revival influences","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition with only minor 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 02:54:20.876166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/9682/40968203/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001936.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001936/0b3fc16fe1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001936/0b3fc16fe1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_730_N_Beal_St_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:House_at_730_N_Beal_St_Belton_Texas_2021.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968203","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000878"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/house-at-730-n-beal-st-90001936/"}