{"nrhp_refnum":"93000104","name":"Davis, Ben and Mary, House","other_names":["Site No. 795"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 S. Resident","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wharton","county":"Wharton County","state":"TX","lat":29.309963485000026,"lon":-96.09799697599999,"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 Tudor Revival brick-veneer house at 100 South Resident in Wharton, Wharton County, Texas, built around 1933 for Ben and Mary Davis. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of Tudor Revival architecture, a style popular in the late 1920s and 1930s, within Wharton. It keeps a high degree of integrity and is significant to the town's domestic architecture. It is evaluated under Criterion C within the context of community development in Wharton, 1875-1942.","narrative":"This two-story house at 100 South Resident in Wharton, Texas, was built around 1933 for Ben and Mary Davis, who bought the lot in 1912. Davis managed a grocery store on the north side of the downtown square. The house is a Tudor Revival dwelling with brick veneer walls and a steeply pitched gabled and hipped roof of wood shingles. Its east facade is dominated by a steep front gable that reaches down to an entrance set in a round brick arch with limestone tabs. A large bay window with brick detailing, rough-laid limestone at the corners under the eaves, and a tall corbelled brick chimney add to its character. A side entrance opens onto a terrace with brick piers and an iron balustrade. The house was listed for its architecture. It is a good local example of a style popular in the late 1920s and 1930s and retains a high degree of integrity. It remains a single-family home.","period_of_significance":"1933","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as a private single dwelling, still in use as a single dwelling, with a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.110837-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9707/40970750/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000104.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000104/4e959dc4c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000104/4e959dc4c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_and_Mary_Davis_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:Ben_and_Mary_Davis_House,_Wharton,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970750","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002538"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/wharton-county/davis-ben-and-mary-house-93000104/"}