{"nrhp_refnum":"90001938","name":"Means, V. R., House","other_names":["#4"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"609 E. 14th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belton","county":"Bell County","state":"TX","lat":31.06704772300003,"lon":-97.45092118099996,"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 1 1/2-story frame Colonial Revival house at 609 East 14th Street in Belton, Bell County, Texas, built in 1913 by the New Lumber Company for V.R. Means.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of the popular house types promoted nationwide through local lumber yards. It illustrates how stock plans and the Colonial Revival style spread to small communities. It also reflects Belton's growth around the turn of the century and meets Criterion C in architecture.","narrative":"This 1 1/2-story frame house at 609 East 14th Street in Belton was built in 1913 by the local New Lumber Company for V.R. Means, an officer of the firm. It has a symmetrical form, a clipped side-gable roof with a wide shed-roofed dormer, weatherboard siding, and Colonial Revival details such as a boxed-column porch and a beveled glass front door with sidelights. It sits on a wooded lot in a neighborhood of early 20th-century houses. The company built roughly 100 homes in Belton in the first quarter of the century, and this sturdy house was apparently meant as a model demonstrating the quality of its work. Lumber companies of the era supplied plans, materials and construction for middle-class housing across the country. The house was listed for its architectural value as an early Belton example of the Colonial Revival style and of the way popular house types were spread through lumber yards.","period_of_significance":"1913","architect_builder":"New Lumber Company","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, as at the time of listing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.781604-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/9682/40968209/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/90001938.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001938/1c425ade22-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001938/1c425ade22-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V_r_means_house_belton_tx_2014.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:V_r_means_house_belton_tx_2014.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968209","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._R._Means_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7906187"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bell-county/means-v-r-house-90001938/"}