{"nrhp_refnum":"94000834","name":"Holden, William Curry and Olive Price, House","other_names":["Casa Grande"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3109 20th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lubbock","county":"Lubbock County","state":"TX","lat":33.57631840600004,"lon":-101.88211248899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Pueblo Revival adobe house at 3109 20th Street in Lubbock, Texas, built in 1930-1931 and known as Casa Grande. It has flat roofs in a modified U-plan and sits near Texas Tech University.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the earliest and best-known example of Pueblo Revival architecture in Lubbock and one of few such houses in Texas east of El Paso. It retains a high degree of integrity. It was built by historian and archeologist William Curry Holden and his wife Olive out of admiration for Native American culture.","narrative":"Casa Grande, at 3109 20th Street in Lubbock, is a one-story adobe house in the Pueblo Revival style, completed in 1931. It has a series of flat roofs with rounded parapets, battered walls, projecting wood vigas, and unfinished round wood columns with carved brackets. William Curry Holden, a Texas Tech history and anthropology professor, and his wife Olive, an artist and librarian, planned the house together after Olive studied Pueblo Indians in a university course. Architecture student James Atcheson prepared the construction drawings after sketching Pueblo dwellings in Santa Fe with them. The couple had adobe bricks made on site, bought lumber from New Mexico, and reinforced the concrete foundation with scavenged steel and Model-T axles. The house became the center of a group of adobe buildings known locally as Adobe Row. It is considered the earliest and best-known Pueblo Revival house in Lubbock and one of few in Texas east of El Paso. It also served as a gathering place for archeology students and visiting scholars.","period_of_significance":"1930-1931","architect_builder":"Atcheson, James; Holden, Olive Price; Holden, William Curry","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Pueblo Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, retaining a high degree of integrity, and 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 02:54:24.0944-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/9728/40972872/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94000834.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000834/d08af9a85c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000834/d08af9a85c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Fredlyfish4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Curry_and_Olive_Price_Holden_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Fredlyfish4</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:William_Curry_and_Olive_Price_Holden_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972872","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106810910"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/lubbock-county/holden-william-curry-and-olive-price-house-94000834/"}