Hantz House

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

Hantz House is a single dwelling at 855 Fairview Dr. in Fayetteville, Washington County, designed by architect E. Faye Jones in the Modern Movement style. Construction began in fall 1950 and the house was complete by 1951.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2001 under criterion C, with state-level significance in architecture. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1950 to 1951, when Jones drew up the design and the house was completed.

Physical character

The house has a concrete foundation, wood walls sheathed in board and batten, and a concrete block chimney with an unpainted concrete block fireplace. Exposed beams and a tongue and groove pine ceiling sit beneath a low, horizontal roofline, and a glass wall on the south side opens onto cantilevered decks. The tar-and-gravel roof was replaced with insulated roofing in 1999, and the rear deck was rebuilt on piers around 1995.

Historical context

In 1950 the Hantz family bought undeveloped land from P.M. Rhea and his wife, and Jones produced preliminary drawings before leaving for Rice University; construction began that fall. The Hantzes lived in the house from 1951 to 1999, and at the time of its listing it was still used as a single dwelling.