{"nrhp_refnum":"95000330","name":"Alcalde Street-Crockett School Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"200--500 Alcalde, 421--421A N. Carroll and 4315 Victor","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.79332263800006,"lon":-96.77061308896053,"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":"An L-shaped, roughly four-block historic district in East Dallas, Texas, along the 200-500 blocks of Alcalde Street plus the David Crockett School at 421 N. Carroll. The houses and school date mainly from about 1903 to 1920.","why_significant":"The district is nominated for Criterion C as a collection of early 20th-century vernacular and popular houses, and under Criterion A as one of Dallas's best examples of a streetcar suburb. Its buildings come from a single period of development tied to streetcar expansion, and the street was not redeveloped later. Crockett School, built in 1903, is Dallas's oldest extant public school facility and anchors the neighborhood.","narrative":"Alcalde Street and David Crockett School form a small historic district in East Dallas, about 1.5 miles northeast of downtown. It includes 25 buildings, 16 of them contributing, mostly modest frame houses built between about 1903 and 1920 in modified L-plan and bungalow forms. Many show late Victorian massing with simple classical details such as slender Doric porch columns. The two-and-a-half-story brick Crockett School, begun in 1903, is the dominant landmark and the oldest surviving public school facility in Dallas. The street grew after streetcar lines met at Elm and Peak streets, and the Queen City Addition may have been meant partly for streetcar employees. Unlike most East Dallas streets, Alcalde was not built up during the earlier railroad-era boom and was not redeveloped afterward, so it keeps a consistent early 20th-century character. Its architecture and its role as an intact streetcar suburb are the reasons for its listing.","period_of_significance":"1903-1945","architect_builder":"Bulger, C.W.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Houses and the school remain in use; seven vacant lots, mostly former homesites on the northwest side of Alcalde, are noted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.281558-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9686/40968650/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/95000330.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968650","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999668"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/alcalde-street-crockett-school-historic-district-95000330/"}