{"nrhp_refnum":"94000608","name":"North Bishop Avenue Commercial Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by 9th St., Davis St., Adams and Madison","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.74771572000006,"lon":-96.828049298714,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small commercial historic district of about 12 acres in the Oak Cliff community of Dallas, Texas, made up of 1- and 2-story brick commercial buildings along a 2-1/2 block stretch of North Bishop Avenue, plus two bungalows, dating from 1915 to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district is significant at the local level under Criterion C for its excellent collection of 1920s and 1930s commercial architecture. It represents commercial nodes that arose within formerly residential Oak Cliff areas under pressure from busy streetcar stops and intersections. It retains a high degree of architectural integrity.","narrative":"Along a short stretch of North Bishop Avenue in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, a cluster of brick storefronts and two bungalows forms a compact commercial district of about 12 acres. It holds 15 contributing and five noncontributing buildings, most built in the mid-1920s, with dates ranging from 1915 to 1935. The buildings are mainly vernacular one- and two-part commercial blocks with geometric brick corbelling and decorative parapets, and two Tudor Revival examples at 313-21 and 400-08 North Bishop. The district grew from a streetcar stop at Davis Street and North Bishop Avenue, which drew merchants into what had been a residential subdivision. Shops there served nearby residents and included drugstores, garages, a movie theater and a bakery. The two surviving houses show the domestic fabric that commercial growth replaced. The district was recognized for its architecture, its integrity and its role as an example of streetcar-era commercial development, with a period of significance of 1915 to 1944.","period_of_significance":"1915-1944","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: one-part commercial block (with Tudor Revival and Classical Revival details on some buildings)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are listed as specialty store commerce and single dwelling; the two former houses have been converted to commercial use and several storefronts have been sympathetically rehabilitated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.931306-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/9686/40968674/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94000608.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000608/85affa34d5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000608/85affa34d5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bishop_Arts_District2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:Bishop_Arts_District2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968674","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Bishop_Avenue_Commercial_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7054198"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/north-bishop-avenue-commercial-historic-district-94000608/"}