Nuggett Hill Historic District

Nuggett Hill is a 40-acre residential neighborhood on one of Longview's prominent hills, about a mile northeast of downtown. Harry S. Turner platted it in 1931 as Turner's Nuggett Hill Addition, aiming to attract landowners who had prospered from the East Texas oilfield discovered the year before. The district holds 77 resources, mainly houses built in the 1930s in Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles, set on consistent setbacks with broad lawns and mature trees. Designs range from modest builder-designed cottages to elaborate houses by architects such as Percy Zimmerman and Clifford D. Hutsell. The James F. Stuckey house stands out, with its landscape of concrete bridges, benches and a bandstand attributed to artisan Dionicio Rodriquez. A church, a former fire station and some later commercial buildings along East Marshall Avenue complete the area. Its intact architecture and cohesive setting made it eligible for its local architectural significance, with a period of significance of 1931 to 1954.