{"nrhp_refnum":"94000859","name":"Westmoreland Historic District","other_names":["Westmoreland Addition","See Also:Dawson, James A., House","Heyn"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Hawthorne, Burlington and Marshall Aves., and Garott St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.742030646000046,"lon":-95.38387733347713,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district about 1.5 miles south of downtown Houston, Texas, covering eight blocks of the Westmoreland Addition, a subdivision platted in 1902 and developed by the South End Land Company. It contains 66 contributing resources built between 1904 and 1932.","why_significant":"The district is a largely intact early 20th-century 'private place' neighborhood with a mix of Queen Anne, American Four-Square, Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Jacobethan Revival houses and apartments. Its street plan limits outside access and centers on broad Westmoreland Avenue. The inventory also links houses to Houston business and civic figures and to builders such as Russell Brown.","narrative":"Westmoreland is a residential neighborhood about a mile and a half south of downtown Houston. It was platted in 1902 as a 12-block, 44-acre subdivision and developed by the South End Land Company as a 'private place', with a street grid that limits outside access and focuses on broad Westmoreland Avenue. The district now takes in all or part of eight blocks and counts 66 contributing resources, mostly single-family houses plus a few apartment buildings, built between 1904 and 1932. Styles include Queen Anne, American Four-Square, Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Jacobethan Revival. Raised front porches, sleeping porches on the south and east sides, and live oaks, magnolias and date palms give the streets a consistent look. Early residents included Houston merchants and civic leaders, and builder Russell Brown lived in one of the houses. Postwar demolition, garden apartments and a freeway spur removed part of the original subdivision, but the remaining core keeps its historic character and residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Russell Brown, Russell Brown Company, Southern Loan and Investment Co., Wm. A. Wilson Co., Charles P. Jones, Lewis Sterling Green, and others named in the inventory","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Virtually all buildings retain their original residential function as single or multiple dwellings. About nine sites are vacant, and post-World War II apartments and a freeway have intruded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.092302-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/9722/40972284/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94000859.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004129","name":"Courtlandt Place Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/courtlandt-place-historic-district-80004129/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972284","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/westmoreland-historic-district-94000859/"}