{"nrhp_refnum":"91000890","name":"Blanco Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Conn,Adrian Edwards,House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Fifth St., Live Oak St., Town Cr. and rear property lines W of Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blanco","county":"Blanco County","state":"TX","lat":29.19470274400004,"lon":-98.4266570224556,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about eight city blocks centered on the courthouse square in Blanco, Blanco County, Texas, with 46 properties (25 contributing, 21 noncontributing) dating from the mid-19th century to the present.","why_significant":"The district is organized around the 1886 Second Empire limestone Old Blanco County Courthouse, with commercial, residential and agricultural buildings tied together by native limestone construction and a gridiron plan. The surviving buildings reflect the town's commercial development and its role in the Hill Country wool and mohair economy. The visible text does not include the full Section 8 statement, so some reasoning is not shown.","narrative":"Blanco's historic core spreads across roughly eight blocks around the courthouse square, north of Town Creek in the Texas Hill Country. Forty-six properties make up the district, of which 25 date to 1941 or earlier and retain their character. The centerpiece is the Old Blanco County Courthouse, a two-story Second Empire building of native limestone completed in 1886. It served as the county seat for only four years before voters moved the seat to Johnson City, after which it held a school, bank, offices, medical facilities and other uses. Around it stand mostly one-story commercial buildings, such as the rough limestone Cage Building of 1908 and the Masonic Building of 1907, along with brick buildings of the 1920s and 1930s, houses, a jail, and wool and mohair warehouses tied to the local agricultural economy. Native limestone, used from the 1860s to the 1940s, gives the district visual unity, while later concrete block and cedar-sided buildings interrupt it in places.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire; Late 19th and 20th Century Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed uses: former courthouse, commercial buildings, city hall, residences. One garage building (BC 8) is described as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.620934-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/9713/40971318/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/91000890.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000890/bebf825ce1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000890/bebf825ce1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blance_Texas_DowntownWS_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blance_Texas_DowntownWS_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971318","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/blanco-county/blanco-historic-district-91000890/"}