Cranfill Apartments Austin, Texas
National Register of Historic Places Data
Cranfill Apartments has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000613
- Date Listed
- August 20, 2013
- Name
- Cranfill Apartments
- Other Names
- Cranfill-Beacham Apartments; Cliff Street Condominiums Building B
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 1909 Cliff St., Building B
- City/Town
- Austin
- County
- Travis
- State
- Texas
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Cranfill Apartments are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places at the local level of significance under Criterion C in the area of Architecture, as they display distinctive characteristics of midtwentieth-century modern design on a residential scale. Additionally, the building is an elegant and exemplary example of the work of Harwell Hamilton Harris, widely regarded as a master of this era of design. Harris designed the apartments in 1958 for a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he had served as Dean of the School of Architecture before moving to Dallas around the time he designed the building. The building is one of few examples of Harriss work in Austin and is associated with the Thomas Cranfill House, designed by Harris in 1952 and located just one lot south. The period of significance for the nominated property is 1960, the year in which construction on the building was complete.
