San Augustine Residential Historic District

This residential district in San Augustine, Texas, curves around the east and south sides of the courthouse square and covers roughly 260 acres. Its street grid follows the 1833 town plat, and the oldest resource is the city cemetery from about 1835. Several late 1830s Greek Revival houses survive, including the Ezekiel Cullen, Matthew Cartwright and Stephen W. Blount houses, all tied to builder Augustus Phelps. Little was built between 1865 and 1901, but the arrival of the railroad in 1901 brought a building boom. Most of the 407 resources are modest and mid-sized houses from about 1901 to 1960, in Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman and later Ranch styles, with garages, barns, churches and a Depression-era stone bridge headwall. Fallow farmland at the south end reflects the area's agricultural past. The district is significant for showing, across 122 years, how a Texas Republic town grew into a varied residential neighborhood.