{"nrhp_refnum":"95001395","name":"Smithville Residential Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Smithville Commercial Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Cleveland, First, Mills, N. 9th, Burleson, Colorado, and the Colorado R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Smithville","county":"Bastrop County","state":"TX","lat":30.009325967000052,"lon":-97.15695190550382,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of roughly 50 city blocks surrounding the central business district of Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas, with houses, churches, and institutional buildings dating from 1887 to 1945.","why_significant":"The form marks Criterion A, tying the district to broad patterns of local history. It describes a largely intact late 19th and early 20th century small-town neighborhood with consistent setbacks, compatible materials, and a wide range of vernacular and period-revival house types. The text provided is truncated and does not include the full significance narrative.","narrative":"Smithville's residential district covers about 50 blocks around the town's commercial center on the high south bank of the Colorado River in Bastrop County, Texas. It holds 192 contributing and 173 noncontributing resources, mostly single-family houses built between 1887 and 1945. Pyramidal-roof houses are the most common type, alongside double-pen, center-passage, L-plan, T-plan, bungalow, Four-square, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, and Tudor Revival homes. Notable examples include the 1899 Burleson House, the 1905 Jones House, and the 1915 Chapman-Trousdale House. Four churches, a 1937 limestone post office with a 1939 New Deal mural, a 1908 brick school, and a former Civilian Conservation Corps-era fire station add institutional variety. Mature pecan, live oak, and hackberry trees shade streets laid out in a regular grid. Because the town sits on a spur off the main highway, much of its historic fabric has survived. The district was listed for its association with the broad patterns of local history.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1887 to 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular pyramid roof; Bungalow/Craftsman; Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Most resources remain in residential or religious use; the former fire station now serves as the police station, and the post office and school are listed as current functions. The old central school is described as in fair condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.109628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/9710/40971036/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/95001395.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001395/a51b621144-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001395/a51b621144-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chancellor_House_Smithville_Texas_2020.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:Chancellor_House_Smithville_Texas_2020.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971036","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999630"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bastrop-county/smithville-residential-historic-district-95001395/"}