{"nrhp_refnum":"95000328","name":"Peak's Suburban Addition Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Grace Methodist Episcopal Church","Viola Courts Apart"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Sycamore, Peak, Worth and Fitzhugh","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.79741870300006,"lon":-96.77256541241532,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the old East Dallas area of Dallas, Texas, covering roughly 22 city blocks around Gaston, Junius, Swiss and Sycamore avenues. It holds 350 buildings, mostly houses built between about 1895 and 1945.","why_significant":"The district is nominated under Criterion C for architecture. It holds the most intact grouping of historic domestic buildings in this part of East Dallas, mostly popular, revival-styled and vernacular forms. These buildings show the neighborhood's architectural evolution during streetcar-era suburban growth.","narrative":"Peak's Suburban Addition Historic District covers about 22 blocks of East Dallas, Texas, roughly bounded by Sycamore, Peak, Worth and Fitzhugh. It contains 350 buildings, of which 244 contribute to its historic character. Most are houses and small apartment buildings, including four-square houses, hipped-roof bungalows, Craftsman-inspired homes and some larger high-style dwellings, along with a few small commercial buildings and churches. Three phases of development are visible: large homestead parcels before 1900, suburban building from 1900 to 1930, and apartment redevelopment after World War II. Part of the land was once the plantation of Jefferson Peak, a Mexican War veteran and early Dallas real estate developer. Growth followed the expansion of the streetcar system. The district was recognized for architecture because it is one of the few relatively unaltered groups of historic buildings left in this part of East Dallas, with a period of significance from 1895 to 1945. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and Viola Courts were previously listed individually.","period_of_significance":"1895-1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current functions remain single and multiple dwellings; 244 of 350 buildings are contributing and 106 are noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.334229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/9686/40968648/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/95000328.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968648","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999666"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/peaks-suburban-addition-historic-district-95000328/"}