{"nrhp_refnum":"99001622","name":"Pampa City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 W. Foster","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pampa","county":"Gray County","state":"TX","lat":35.535695986000064,"lon":-100.96312421299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Pampa City Hall is a two-story, steel-frame Beaux Arts civic building with a raised basement at 200 W. Foster in Pampa, Gray County, Texas. It was built in 1930 to designs by Amarillo architect William Raymond Kaufman.","why_significant":"The building is argued to symbolize Pampa's growth and prosperity during the late-1920s oil boom and to anchor the planned civic group known as \"Million Dollar Row.\" It is also presented as an excellent regional example of Beaux Arts civic architecture with Georgian terra cotta ornament. It is significant at the local level.","narrative":"Pampa City Hall, at 200 W. Foster in the Texas Panhandle, is a two-story steel-frame building of buff brick with limestone detailing and greenish-brown terra cotta ornament. Completed in December 1930 from designs by Amarillo architect William Raymond Kaufman, it cost about $120,000 and was built by John T. Glover of Pampa. The oil discovery of 1926 had turned a small railroad and ranching town into a boom town, and a 1929 bond election funded a new city hall, fire station, streets and parks. The building forms part of \"Million Dollar Row,\" three compatible civic buildings by the same architect, alongside the Gray County Courthouse and the fire station. It originally held the police department, jail, library, city offices and a 1,000-seat auditorium. Its tempered Beaux Arts style, with paired brick pilasters and Georgian terra cotta detail, is cited as an excellent regional example of civic architecture. It remains in use as city hall and retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1930 - 1949","architect_builder":"W.R. Kaufman & Son, architect; John T. Glover, builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as city hall; described as in excellent condition, with the interior restored in 1986-87 and an elevator added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.175328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/9721/40972165/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/99001622.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001622/5824e7638a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001622/5824e7638a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Jeffrey Beall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pampa_City_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Beall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pampa_City_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972165","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107320712"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/gray-county/pampa-city-hall-99001622/"}