{"nrhp_refnum":"93000114","name":"Elkins, Nettie, House","other_names":["Site No. 189"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"109 E. Alabama","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wharton","county":"Wharton County","state":"TX","lat":29.31393859600007,"lon":-96.09829606199997,"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 one-story frame house at 109 East Alabama Street in Wharton, Wharton County, Texas, built around 1918 for Mrs. Nettie Elkins. It is a pyramid-roof house on brick piers with weatherboard siding.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the best surviving example in Wharton of the pyramid-roof house in its most basic form. It reflects modest folk housing designed for the hot Southern climate and built during a slow period of the city's growth. It meets Criterion C in architecture within the context of community development in Wharton, 1875-1942.","narrative":"Built around 1918 for Mrs. Nettie Elkins, this one-story frame house at 109 East Alabama Street in Wharton faces south in a neighborhood of houses of similar age. A large pyramidal roof with asphalt shingles covers a square, box-like frame set on brick piers and clad in weatherboard. A full-width open porch with three tapered box columns dominates the front, and the windows are two-over-two wooden double-hung sashes. The house is recognized as the best surviving example in Wharton of the pyramid-roof house in its most basic form. Sanborn maps show a frame building on the site by 1919, which supports the estimated construction date. It was built during a slow period of city growth, and its traditional form was probably easy and inexpensive to obtain from local builders. Such houses were common in hot Southern regions, with light framing, a prominent porch and flexible room layouts. The house remains in excellent condition and is still a single-family dwelling.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1918","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Other: Pyramid-roof house","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Retains its integrity and is in excellent condition; 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 02:54:23.981564-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9707/40970742/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000114.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000114/30c2d14e4b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000114/30c2d14e4b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nettie_Elkins_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:Nettie_Elkins_House,_Wharton,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970742","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002530"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/wharton-county/elkins-nettie-house-93000114/"}