NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM 1. NAME OF PROPERTY HISTORIC NAME: Old West Austin Historic District OTHER NAMES/SITE NUMBER: N/A 2. LOCATION STREET & NUMBER: Roughly bounded by W. 13th, Lamar Blvd., W. 35th, & Mo-Pac Expy. CITY OR TOWN: Austin VICINITY: N/A NOT FOR PUBLICATION: N/A STATE: Texas CODE: TX COUNTY: Travis CODE: 453 ZIP CODE: 78703 3. STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this x nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant nationally statewide x locally. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official Date State Historic Preservation Officer, Texas Historical Commission State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of commenting or other official Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CERTIFICATION I, hereby certify that this property is: Signature of Keeper Date of Action entered in the National Register See continuation sheet. determined eligible for the National Register See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain): USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Old West Austin Historic District, Travis County, Texas Page 2 5. CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY: Private; public-local CATEGORY OF PROPERTY: District NUMBER OF RESOURCES WITHIN PROPERTY: CONTRIBUTING NONCONTRIBUTING 1,568 951 BUILDINGS 1 0 SITES 4 0 STRUCTURES 1 0 OBJECTS 1,574 951 TOTAL NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTING RESOURCES PREVIOUSLY LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER: 5 (Judge Robert Lynn Batts House, Goldie Horton-Porter House, Jacques and Maggie Keith House, Chester and Lorine Nagel House, Woodlawn) NAME OF RELATED MULTIPLE PROPERTY LISTING: N/A 6. FUNCTION OR USE HISTORIC FUNCTIONS: DOMESTIC: Single dwelling, Secondary structure, Multiple dwelling LANDSCAPE: Park TRANSPORTATION: Road-related CURRENT FUNCTIONS: DOMESTIC: Single dwelling, Secondary structure, Multiple dwelling LANDSCAPE: Park TRANSPORTATION: Road-related 7. DESCRIPTION ARCHITECTURAL CLASSIFICATION: LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS: Colonial; Classical; Italian Renaissance; Tudor; Mission/Spanish Colonial Revivals LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS: Prairie School, Bungalow/Craftsman MODERN MOVEMENT: Moderne, International Style, Ranch Style MATERIALS: FOUNDATION: BRICK; WOOD; STONE; CONCRETE WALLS: WOOD (weatherboard, board and batten, drop-siding); BRICK; STONE; STUCCO; SHEET METAL ROOF: WOOD (shingles); ASPHALT; CLAY TILE; SHEET METAL OTHER: CONCRETE; GLASS NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION: see Continuation Sheets 7-5 to 7-71 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Old West Austin Historic District, Travis County, Texas Page 3 8. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE APPLICABLE NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA: x A PROPERTY IS ASSOCIATED WITH EVENTS THAT HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE BROAD PATTERNS OF OUR HISTORY. B PROPERTY IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIVES OF PERSONS SIGNIFICANT IN OUR PAST. x C PROPERTY EMBODIES THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TYPE, PERIOD, OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION OR REPRESENTS THE WORK OF A MASTER, OR POSSESSES HIGH ARTISTIC VALUES, OR REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT AND DISTINGUISHABLE ENTITY WHOSE COMPONENTS LACK INDIVIDUAL DISTINCTION. D PROPERTY HAS YIELDED, OR IS LIKELY TO YIELD INFORMATION IMPORTANT IN PREHISTORY OR HISTORY. CRITERIA CONSIDERATIONS: N/A AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE: Community Planning and Development; Entertainment/Recreation; Architecture PERIOD OF SIGNIFICANCE: 1853–1953 SIGNIFICANT DATES: 1853; 1875; 1886 SIGNIFICANT PERSON: N/A CULTURAL AFFILIATION: N/A ARCHITECT/BUILDER: Adams & Adams; Anderson, William Dixon; Ayers, Atlee B.; Calcasieu Lumber Co.; Cook, Abner; Dieter, Willie E.; Everett, Raymond; Fehr & Granger; Gideon, Samuel; Jessen, Jessen & Millhouse; Koch & Fowler; Kreisle, Edwin C.; Kuehne, Hugo F.; McClure, Wilson; Nagel, Chester Emil; Page Brothers; Page-Southerland-Page; Rolfe, Walter T.; Thomas, Roy; Thomson, Henry B.; Walling, Bradfield & Brush; Watson, Arthur Pope NARRATIVE STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: see Continuation Sheets 8-72 to 8-93 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY: see Continuation Sheets 9-94 to 9-107 PREVIOUS DOCUMENTATION ON FILE (NPS): preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested x previously listed in the National Register (Batts House, Horton-Porter House, Keith House, Nagel House, Woodlawn) x previously determined eligible by the National Register (Bohn House) designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # PRIMARY LOCATION OF ADDITIONAL DATA x State Historic Preservation Office (Texas Historical Commission) Other state agency Federal agency Local government University x Other -- Specify repository: Austin History Center, City of Austin Historic Preservation Office USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Old West Austin Historic District, Travis County, Texas Page 4 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF PROPERTY: 635 UTM REFERENCES: Zone: 14 Northing Easting 1. 619560 3353360 2. 619720 3353440 3. 619720 3353420 4. 620040 3353300 5. 620120 3353120 6. 620200 3352580 7. 620140 3352460 8. 620220 3352440 9. 620200 3352440 10. 620340 3352300 11. 620560 3352660 12. 620220 3352580 13. 620220 3351540 14. 620180 3351100 15. 620080 3350940 16. 619860 3350020 17. 618880 3350680 VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION: see Continuation Sheet 10-108 BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION: see Continuation Sheet 10-108 11. FORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE: Amy E. Dase/Historian, Ralph Newlan/Architectural Historian, with assistance from Marlene Romanczak, Laurie Virkstis, and Candace Volz ORGANIZATION: Prewitt and Associates, Inc. DATE: June 10, 2003 STREET & NUMBER: 7701 North Lamar Blvd., Suite 104 TELEPHONE: 512.459.3349, ext. 224 CITY OR TOWN: Austin STATE: TX ZIP CODE: 78752-1012 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION CONTINUATION SHEETS: MAPS: see pages Map-113 through Map-125 PHOTOGRAPHS: see Continuation Sheets Photographs-109 to Photographs-112 ADDITIONAL ITEMS: N/A PROPERTY OWNER NAME: List on file with the Texas Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER: TELEPHONE: CITY OR TOWN: STATE: ZIP CODE: NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Old West Austin Historic District Section 7 Page 5 Austin, Travis County, Texas Description The Old West Austin Historic District covers approximately 106 blocks of residential development and park land distributed across a plateau west of Austin’s central business district. The area is comprised of three major suburbs, Enfield, Pemberton Heights, and Bryker Woods and was all originally part of the George W. Spear League. When the league was divided, the Pease family’s Woodlawn plantation and farmland John Woods Harris owned encompassed the greater portion of the parceling. Although a few houses were built before the turn of the century, suburban development began in the southern portion of the area in the 1920s and expanded northward through the 1950s. Architect-designed dwellings coexist with more modest vernacular dwellings and the collection includes period revival residences, bungalows, cottages, and apartments. Relieving the basic rectilinear grid are several streets that conform to Shoal Creek basin’s irregular topography and others that gently descend into Pease Park, which forms the historic district’s eastern boundary. The resultant grouping of nineteenth- and twentieth-century resources includes 2,525 dwellings, garages, and other properties that retain integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, which remain recognizable to the historic district’s period of significance. Old West Austin’s Automobile Suburbs The historic district includes several features that refer to its nineteenth-century history. Woodlawn plantation, with its Greek Revival dwelling built in 1853 (see Photograph 1) and adjoining acreage provided much of the land for what would become the historic district. Nineteenth-century development included establishment of the International and Great Northern Railroad, which defines the historic district’s western boundary, and the founding of Pease Park, donated to the city by the Pease family, owners of Woodlawn, which defines the historic district’s eastern boundary. Other nineteenth-century development included a few dwellings on the historic district’s north side. Twentieth-century suburban development, however, dominates the historic district. A significant portion of the Old West Austin Historic District occupies a limestone shelf west of the city. The scenic view of downtown Austin and the University of Texas campus is a distinctive feature of many dwellings built along the area’s eastern edge. The suburbs of Enfield, Pemberton Heights, and Bryker Woods form the nucleus of suburban development. The oldest