House at 532 Harvard Street
532 Harvard St., Houston, TXThe house was built by Hart Oil and Well Company for one of its employees. It is typical of the larger homes built in the Heights as Houston grew with the oil industry, and white-collar workers and professionals moved into the suburbs.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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.