{"nrhp_refnum":"93000115","name":"Garrett, John A. and Sophie, House","other_names":["Site No. 191"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"401 E. Alabama","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wharton","county":"Wharton County","state":"TX","lat":29.312780804000056,"lon":-96.09482981999997,"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 1 1/2-story frame house at 401 East Alabama Street in Wharton, Wharton County, Texas, built around 1897 in a modified L-plan form. It is a private single dwelling that still serves as a residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of an upscale modified L-plan, pyramid-roof house of the late 19th century. Heavy Queen Anne detailing raises a common folk house form to a more urbane level. It retains a high degree of integrity and represents Wharton's late 19th-century housing stock.","narrative":"Built around 1897 at 401 East Alabama Street in Wharton, this 1 1/2-story frame house follows a modified L-plan beneath a large pyramidal roof with intersecting gables. It rests on brick piers and is clad in weatherboard siding, with 2/2 wooden double-hung windows and louvered shutters. A U-shaped hipped-roof porch wraps the south, east and north sides, supported by turned posts with jigsawn balusters and a turned frieze. A canted bay window and a small dormer with an art-glass bordered window add to the complex roofline. The house was listed for architecture. Its significance lies in how it takes a folk house form widely used in hot, humid Southern climates and enriches it with Queen Anne detailing, placing it at the upscale end of the pyramid-roof type. Title passed to Sophie Garrett in 1897, and the Garretts remained until 1944. In the 1920s the house marked the northern limit of the city. It retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1897","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: Modified L-plan house, with Victorian (Queen Anne) influence","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current use is single dwelling; the form says the property retains 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 02:54:23.916845-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/9707/40970736/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000115.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000115/7f8136188b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000115/7f8136188b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Garrett_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:John_Garrett_House,_Wharton,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970736","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/wharton-county/garrett-john-a-and-sophie-house-93000115/"}