{"nrhp_refnum":"99000723","name":"Botts-Fowler House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 N. Fourth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.56539484900003,"lon":-97.14601093799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, L-plan wood frame house at 115 North Fourth Avenue in Mansfield, Tarrant County, Texas, built in 1886 by local builder William Bratton, with a rear addition and porch detailing added about 1900.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant under Criterion A in Community Planning and Development at the local level. It is one of only a handful of properties that still represent Mansfield's late 19th century growth patterns. It is also associated with early Mansfield figures, including merchant A.J. Botts and A.M. Fowler, who improved the town's water system in 1904.","narrative":"Built in 1886 at the western edge of Mansfield's original town plat, this one-story, L-plan frame house was constructed by local builder William Bratton for grocer A.J. Botts. About 1900, contractor W.L. Graves added a rear kitchen wing and the spindlework porch frieze and railing. The house has horizontal wood siding, a cross-gabled roof, a brick pier foundation and a shingled front gable. Inside, it keeps tongue and groove oak floors, a brick fireplace and wooden doors. A brick cistern stands behind it. Later occupants included Reverend Ernest Tims, known as the marrying parson, merchant and banker John Howard Wright, and Dr. James Truett Stephens. Andrew M. Fowler bought it in 1911; he had overhauled the town's water system in 1904, and his family lived there for decades. The house is valued as one of few surviving examples of Mansfield's late nineteenth century residential growth, with a comparison of local L-plan houses showing few that retain equal integrity.","period_of_significance":"1886 - 1949","architect_builder":"Bratton, William (1886); Graves, W.L. (1900)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the original wood windows have been replaced with aluminum ones, but the house otherwise retains a high degree of its original form and materials.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.058458-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/9735/40973518/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/99000723.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000723/a050138701-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000723/a050138701-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BottsFowlerHouse1_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BottsFowlerHouse1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973518","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/botts-fowler-house-99000723/"}