{"nrhp_refnum":"94001079","name":"Moore-Hancock Farmstead","other_names":["Site No. 41 TV 1405"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4811 Sinclair Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Austin","county":"Travis County","state":"TX","lat":30.321878336000054,"lon":-97.74150630399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Historic - Non-Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century farmstead at 4811 Sinclair Avenue in Austin, Travis County, Texas, with a center-passage log house built about 1849, a small log outbuilding, a stone kitchen with root cellar, and a hand-dug well.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the only log dwelling in Austin known to survive on its original site. It was the rural home of Martin Moore, Austin's first merchant, and later the base for a dairy run by the family of Congressman John Hancock. It also holds archeological value, with more than 700,000 artifacts recovered during restoration.","narrative":"This farmstead in northwest Austin preserves a center-passage log house built about 1849 from locally obtained cedar and limestone. Two log pens flank an open dogtrot. A small log outbuilding, a stone kitchen with a root cellar cut into bedrock, and a hand-dug well complete the group. Martin Moore, who opened the first store in the new town of Austin, retired here to farm his wife Elizabeth's land. In 1866 the tract passed to John Hancock, a Texas Unionist politician and later congressman, whose nephews ran a dairy from the house. The dairy kept operating into the twentieth century, and the house was later altered, divided into apartments and condemned in 1987. A multi-year restoration guided by architectural study and archeology removed later additions and recovered the early appearance. It is considered the only surviving log dwelling in Austin on its original site, and excavations yielded some 700,000 artifacts about early settlement and farm life.","period_of_significance":"1849-1899","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Other: center passage","criteria":["A","D"],"status_note":"Restored in the early 1990s to its 19th-century appearance; still used as a single-family dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.245408-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/9736/40973609/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94001079.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001079/dcf6da5203-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001079/dcf6da5203-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moore_hancock_farmstead_2008.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moore_hancock_farmstead_2008.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973609","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002377"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/travis-county/moore-hancock-farmstead-94001079/"}