{"nrhp_refnum":"93000102","name":"Hawes, Edwin, House","other_names":["Site No. 800"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"309 N. Resident","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wharton","county":"Wharton County","state":"TX","lat":29.313726986000063,"lon":-96.09686126399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-03-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame center-passage (I-house) dwelling at 309 North Resident Street in Wharton, Texas, built in 1897 for Edwin Hawes, with a ca. 1920 garage on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of a two-story center-passage house that mixes late-19th-century Queen Anne influence with early 20th-century Classical Revival alterations. It retains a high degree of integrity and is described as one of Wharton's finest turn-of-the-century residences. It is also tied to Edwin Hawes, a county judge and local political figure.","narrative":"Built in 1897 for Edwin Hawes, this two-story frame house at 309 North Resident Street in Wharton follows the center-passage, or I-house, form: one room deep, two stories tall, with a central hall and a rear ell. It sits on brick piers under a hipped asphalt-shingle roof and is clad in weatherboard, with two-over-two wooden windows and shutters. Its most prominent feature is a two-story porch with six Classical Revival columns, a jig-sawn balustrade and a matching frieze. A truncated tower with a mansard roof marks the south side, and a ca. 1920 frame garage stands to the north. The house shows Queen Anne influence from its original construction alongside early 20th-century Classical Revival changes, yet it keeps its basic form and a high degree of integrity. Hawes passed the bar in 1874, served as Wharton County Judge from 1876 to 1882, and helped restore the county's finances. The house was listed for its architecture, as one of the town's finest turn-of-the-century residences.","period_of_significance":"1897, ca. 1920","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: Center-passage House (Queen Anne influence with Classical Revival alterations)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use 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 02:54:23.213524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/9707/40970716/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000102.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000102/f8d13ef51a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000102/f8d13ef51a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Hawes_House,_Wharton,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Hawes_House,_Wharton,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970716","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002532"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/wharton-county/hawes-edwin-house-93000102/"}