{"nrhp_refnum":"93001607","name":"Dealey Plaza Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Pacific Ave., Market St., Jackson St. and right of way of Dallas Right of Way Management Company","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.77872705950003,"lon":-96.8077347851688,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-19","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1993-04-19","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in downtown Dallas, Texas, centered on Dealey Plaza, a roughly 3-acre park formed in 1934-40, plus the Triple Underpass, adjacent streets, and surrounding buildings and railyards. It includes the block of Elm Street where President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.","why_significant":"The district is nominated as the site of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and it retains a very high level of historic integrity from that date. The Plaza's 1930s Art Deco design, its landscape, and the surrounding buildings seen from the assassination scene all contribute. The nomination states it does not endorse any theory about the assassination.","narrative":"Dealey Plaza is a landscaped park of about three acres at the western edge of downtown Dallas, created between 1934 and 1940 from part of John Neely Bryan's original land grant. City engineers designed it as a gateway where Elm, Main and Commerce streets converge at the Triple Underpass beneath railroad tracks. Its concrete reflecting pools, colonnades, pergolas and planters follow a simplified Art Deco style, and it was named for civic leader George Bannerman Dealey. The district also takes in nearby buildings, including former warehouses influenced by Chicago commercial architecture, and part of the adjacent railyards. It was listed because President John F. Kennedy was shot on Elm Street here on November 22, 1963, and because the scene keeps a high degree of its 1963 appearance. The street alignments, underpass and original park features survive, though signs, lamp posts and markers have changed. Features added since 1963 are treated as noncontributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Plaza and roadway designed by city engineers with assistance from E.F. Mitchell, chief engineer for the Texas & Pacific Railroad and Union Terminal Company; Dealey statue sculpted by Felix de Weldon","architectural_style":"Chicago, Classical Revival, Romanesque, International; Plaza features in late simplified Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most original architectural features survive and have been refurbished and repainted since 1963; the Plaza remains a park under the Dallas Park Board, and surrounding buildings are in government and business use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.739204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/9709/40970919/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93001607_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001607/b6365f4e5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001607/b6365f4e5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Michael Barera","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Dealey_Plaza_from_Reunion_Tower_August_2015_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Barera</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:View_of_Dealey_Plaza_from_Reunion_Tower_August_2015_01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78002918","name":"Westend Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/westend-historic-district-78002918/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970919","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dealey_Plaza","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1181004"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/dealey-plaza-historic-district-93001607/"}