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Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 179 Artillery Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

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Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 179 Artillery Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

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Significance: This 2-1/2 story buff brick residence is a good example of officer housing provided on post during the first decade of the twentieth century. Built in 1909 from standardized plans issued from the Office of the Quartermaster General, it is one of three similar residential plans of the cavalry and light artillery addition to the post. The structure's most distinguished resident, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, occupied there quarters in 1941, just prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II and Eisenhower's European command.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183
Survey number: HABS TX-3303-16
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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San Antonio (Tex.)29.45240, -98.46444
Google Map of 29.4524024, -98.4644354
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