House at 1210 Harvard Street
a.k.a. House and Carriage House at 1210 Harvard
1210 Harvard St., Houston, TXHouse is good example of large, simple homes for the more prosperous middle-class residents of the area; typical of a slightly earlier period of construction; the earliest inhabitant listed for this house was the owner of two local grocery stores. Two-story carriage house is an unusual example of a once-common building type in the Heights.
Local significance of the building: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.