National Register Listing

Ezzell House

1236 Rutland St., Houston, TX

Original owner, Thomas Ezzell, had meat market on Washington Street. He bought this house in 1907 for $525. Good example of decorative style used for several of the larger homes in the Houston Heights.

Local significance of the building:
Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.