National Register Listing

Charnwood Residential Historic District

Roughly bounded by E Houston, RR tracks, E Wells, S Donnybrook, E Dobbs, and S Broadway, Tyler, TX

The Charnwood Residential Historic District in East Texas, rooted in the 1870s, represents a well-preserved suburban neighborhood shaped by Tyler's growth as a financial center, exhibiting diverse architectural styles reflecting familial relationships and influenced by the 1930s oil boom, making it locally significant for Community Planning and Development and Architecture in the context of Texas suburban development.

The Charnwood Residential Historic District contains one of the largest and best-preserved concentrations of historic domestic properties in this East Texas county seat. The neighborhood's roots date to the 1870s, when community growth began transforming rural farmland into a prestigious suburban neighborhood. Tyler's increasing significance as a banking, insurance and legal center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries continued to fuel this residential growth. The resultant development patterns reflect complex social and familial relationships within the neighborhood as lands were subdivided to accommodate new family members or the desire for financial gain. Expansive Queen Anne and Classical Revival style dwellings eventually coexisted with more modest homes in the Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. The regional oil boom of the 1930s accelerated this trend, culminating in an immediate post-war period growth spurt that effectively completed the development process. Evaluated within the context of Suburban Development in Texas, the district is therefore nominated at the local level of significance in the area of Community Planning and Development and Architecture.

Local significance of the district:
Community Planning And Development; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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.