{"nrhp_refnum":"95000309","name":"Mrs. Baird's Bread Company Building","other_names":["Phase IV--East Dallas DAL/DA 111"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1401 N. Carroll","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.800367695000034,"lon":-96.77702614699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-part commercial block bakery building at 1401 N. Carroll Avenue in East Dallas, Texas, built by the Baird family in 1928-1929 with minimal Prairie School influences. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"It was the first bakery that Mrs. Baird's Bread Company built outside Fort Worth and is described as the oldest tangible link to the company's early operations. It is also described as a rare example of early 20th-century light-industrial commercial architecture in East Dallas. The bakery's arrival helped shift the area from residential suburb toward an urban commercial and manufacturing center.","narrative":"Built in 1928-1929 at 1401 N. Carroll Avenue, this brick and reinforced-concrete building served as the first bakery that Mrs. Baird's Bread Company opened outside Fort Worth. The Baird family chose the East Dallas site for its streetcar and interurban access, its workforce, and its reach to growing suburbs to the north and east. Employment at the plant rose from about 50 to over 300, mostly route salesmen, before the company sold the building in the early 1950s and opened a larger bakery in North Dallas. The two-part commercial block has a symmetrical five-part facade, brick pilasters with Prairie School-like motifs, cast-stone detailing, and metal-sash windows. It is described as virtually unaltered and is now used as a fabric warehouse. The property was listed for its role in the industrial change of East Dallas and the growth of a Texas-based baking company, and as a notable example of early 20th-century light-industrial architecture. The architect and builder are unknown.","period_of_significance":"1928-1945","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Prairie School","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In good condition and virtually unaltered; currently used as a fabric warehouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.093659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/9687/40968744/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/95000309.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000309/aff57a3c78-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000309/aff57a3c78-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._Baird%27s_Bread_Company_Building.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:Mrs._Baird%27s_Bread_Company_Building.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968744","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000917"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/mrs-bairds-bread-company-building-95000309/"}