Means-Justiss House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Means-Justiss House on 6th St., SE, in Paris, Texas is a one-and-a-half-story house that was built in c.1923: by 1926 it replaced a two-story house that was on its location in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Means-Justiss House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Lamar County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Means--Justiss House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 537 6th St., SE, Paris, 79343
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Paris MRA
Architectural style. bungalow, American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 88001934 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

60 of 135 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris, the town this property stands in, in 135 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 57 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 16 flash flood, 4 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Flash Flood	Paris	$200,000	Social media reports indicate several roads flooded in and around Paris, including Highway 195 and 24th Street. A few homes were also flooded as well as some vehicles.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$200,000	Strong winds damaged hangars at Cox Field. A small aircraft was flipped and several others were damaged. Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2011	Hail	Paris	$75,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$75,000	no account filed
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$70,000	Paris police reported several trees and power lines blown down in the city of Paris.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$50,000	Emergency management reported numerous trees and power lines down, several barns damaged, and several roofs of homes damaged in the city of Paris, TX.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$50,000	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, and one large tree was blown into a house, causing extensive damage.
May 2006	Hail	Paris	$35,000	Golf ball-size hail broke windows at an elementary and a high school.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$35,000	Three houses were unroofed and a night club with a metal roof was unroofed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Paris	$30,000	Amateur radio reported water coming into homes on Clark Lane in southeast Paris, TX.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$30,000	A motel and a restaurant sustained damage to their roofs on Highway 271 and Loop 286 on the north side of town. Power lines were also blown down.
April 2011	Hail	Paris	$25,000	Tennis ball sized hail fell on Highway 271 north of Paris.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$25,000	A mobile home was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$25,000	A roof was blown off a house.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$25,000	Parts of buildings were blown away, and trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2005	Heavy Rain	Paris	$20,000	Roof of antique mall collapsed.
February 2008	Lightning	Paris	$15,000	Lightning caused a fire at the Paris Independent School District building Saturday afternoon. The fire was limited to a maintenance area.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Trees were reported down and power outages occurred in northwest Lamar County and southeast Paris.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$15,000	Tree limbs and telephone lines were blown down, along with damage to roofs.
April 1995	Tornado (F0)	Paris	$12,000	A brief touchdown was reported by storm spotters. Two barns were destroyed, a third barn damaged, and trees were blown down.
April 2008	Hail	Paris	$10,000	Golfball-size hail was reported on the west side of Paris.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$10,000	High winds damaged the roof of an apartment complex and a large tree was blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down by high winds.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$10,000	Widespread wind damage occured on the east side of town including blown down trees and power lines, and roof damage to a few homes.
April 2011	Hail	Paris	$10,000	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Paris	$5,000	Golfball size hail fell about a mile east of downtown Paris.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	A wind gust of 65 mph was estimated in Paris. Tree limbs in Paris were knocked down and a few power outages occurred.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Sixty mph winds were estimated in Paris.
March 2005	Tornado (F1)	Paris	$5,000	Barn damaged near Paris.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Trees and power lines knocked down.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	A roof was blown off a mobile home by thunderstorm winds.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a storage building of a construction company.
January 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$5,000	Power lines were downed by high wind.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$3,000	Power lines blown down.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,000	The police department reported trees and power lines down, which resulted in power outages across east Paris.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,000	Sheet metal panels were blown off a roof by high winds.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,000	Large tree limbs were blown down and a roof was damaged by thunderstorm winds.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,000	Strong winds blew down trees and power lines.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$2,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$1,000	High thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$750	Trees were uprooted and power lines were blown down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$600	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and a tin roof over a dog run was blown off.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$400	Trees and power lines were blown down onto Farm Market 79.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$200	Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Hail	Paris	-	A trained spotter reported dime size hail in the city of Paris, TX.
June 2019	Hail	Paris	-	Amateur radio reported quarter size hail approximately 3 miles west of the city of Paris, TX.
June 2019	Hail	Paris	-	Amateur radio reported quarter size hail in the city of Paris, TX.
June 2019	Hail	Paris	-	Emergency management reported quarter size hail approximately 2 miles southeast of the city of Paris, TX on U.S. Highway 271.
April 2018	Hail	Paris	-	A public report indicated nickel sized hail approximately 13 miles northeast of the city of Paris, TX.
April 2018	Hail	Paris	-	A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail at PJC in the southeast part of the city of Paris, TX.
April 2018	Hail	Paris	-	A social media report indicated penny sized hail approximately 1 mile east-southeast of the city of Paris, TX.
April 2017	Hail	Paris	-	Amateur radio reported quarter sized hail near Southeast Loop 286 in the city of Paris, TX.
April 2017	Hail	Paris	-	Trained spotters reported quarter sized hail.
March 2016	Hail	Paris	-	Hail up to the size of quarters was reported in Paris by several sources.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The automated observing system at Cox Field reported a wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	A 2 foot diameter tree was snapped in the city of Paris. The damage occurred near the intersection of 10th Street SE and Hearon.
February 2012	Hail	Paris	-	Dime sized hail was reported in Paris. The local automated weather station (AWOS) at Cox Field also reported 48 mph winds with the thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Lamar County

Map coverage status

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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Chisum Gibbons House	under 500 feet	1988
Johnson-McCuistion House	under 500 feet	1988
Thaddeus and Josepha Preston House	0.2 miles	1988
House at 705 3rd Street, SE	0.3 miles	1988
Atkinson-Morris House	0.3 miles	1988
Edgar and Annie Wright House	0.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001934 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lamar County	All 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.
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.