{"nrhp_refnum":"94000604","name":"Tenth Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Clarendon Dr., S. Fleming Ave., I-35E, E. 8th St. and the E end of Church, E. 9th and Plum Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.747860602500054,"lon":-96.80487314969932,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A hilly, roughly triangular historic district on the southeastern edge of the original Oak Cliff plat in Dallas, Texas, overlooking downtown from the west bank of the Trinity River. It contains 261 properties, mostly modest wood-frame houses built between 1890 and the early 1940s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Oak Cliff's most important African American neighborhood, significant locally under Criterion A in Ethnic Heritage (Black). Its vernacular buildings are a tangible link to an often overlooked part of Dallas history, and few historic African American neighborhoods survive in Dallas with comparable integrity. Oak Cliff Cemetery is included under a Criterion D exception.","narrative":"Tenth Street Historic District occupies a hilly, roughly triangular area at the southeastern edge of Oak Cliff in Dallas, high on the west bank of the Trinity River. Most of its 261 properties, 210 of them contributing, are small wood-frame houses built between 1890 and the early 1940s, including shotgun, L-plan, pyramidal-roof and bungalow types. Landmarks include the Gothic Revival Elizabeth Chapel, the Classical Revival Greater Bethel Baptist Church, Harllee School, a two-story commercial building at 102 Cliff, and the Oak Cliff Cemetery, which covers about one-sixth of the district. The area was platted in 1890 by T.L. Marsalis and the Dallas Land & Loan Company. It is recognized as Oak Cliff's most important African American neighborhood, with residents such as carpenter and contractor Noah Penn, for whom Noah Street is named. Few comparable Black neighborhoods survive in Dallas, and demolition has been a greater threat to this one than alteration.","period_of_significance":"1890-1944","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular: two-room, shotgun, L-plan, pyramidal roof, one-part commercial block; Classical Revival; Gothic Revival; Bungalow","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Many buildings show some deterioration but retain historic character; Elizabeth Chapel A.M.E. Church is described as now vacant, and demolition has left many vacant lots.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.082783-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/9687/40968740/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94000604.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968740","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999683"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/tenth-street-historic-district-94000604/"}