Built in 1956 (ranch-style house). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
From the record
“The Ruth Paine Home at 2515 W. 5th Street in Irving, Texas, United States, is the location where Ruth Paine housed Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, Marina Oswald, for several months until the day after the assassination of President John F. According to official government investigations, including the Warren Commission, it was from the house's garage that Oswald removed the rifle used to shoot Kennedy, having previously concealed it there.”
Wikipedia article Ruth Paine Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 159 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1956, ranch-style house.
Architectural style. ranch-style house, modern architecture
National Register reference number. 14000963 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
31 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Paine House
between 2013 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
27
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Paine House: 6 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Irving, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Hail up to the size of grapefruits was reported around Irving for several minutes. Windows were broken or smashed out by the hail. The hail also damaged the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas Country Club and golf course where the PGA's Byron Nelson Golf Championship was being held. Crews had to repair over 4,000 divots on the golf course before play could resume the next day. The greens of seven holes were significantly damaged. The hail at the golf course was reported to be up to baseball size.
Significant structural damage occurred to some homes in the Nichols Way neighborhood of Irving. Roofs were damaged, part of a roof was torn off a house, and siding was stripped off a few homes. Trees were also knocked down or large limbs were broken off.
Heavy rainfall flooded Trinity View Park and its parking lot, trapping a few visitors in the park. Several cars were flooded up to the door of the car, and three visitors had to be rescued by the Fire Department.
A Construction trailer was blown over, injuring 3 employees. Several other buildings sustained minor damage, sheet metal damaging a few trees and windows in a nearby office building.
Several high water rescues were needed in the county. Numerous roads were closed in Dallas and Irving, including the intersections of Goodnight Road at Southwell Street, Tanner Street at X & Y Streets, Sylvan Road at Irving Road, and Interstate 35 East and Royal Lane. Northwest Highway at Loop 12 was also flooded. Citizens of northwest Irving reported torrential flooding as well.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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