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Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-332 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1850 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Magazine, South side of Cunningham Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Magazine, South side o...

Significance: This late nineteenth-century, one-room, brick magazine, although isolated in its location on the western boundary of the post, is compatible in design and materials with other post buildings erect... More

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar Count...

Significance: Eduard Steves founded a family prominent in San Antonio building, financial and social circles. The house is an excellent example of lavish mansarded Victorian domestic architecture of the 1870s, ... More

Magnus Seng House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Magnus Seng House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-21 Survey number: HABS TX-33-A-15 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction

Fort Sam Houston, Kitchen & Mess Hall, Stanley Road behind Barracks Nos. 145 & 146, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Kitchen & Mess Hall, Stanley Road behind Barracks No...

Significance: The Kitchen and Mess Hall building is part of a complex of buildings including separate latrines and barracks completed in 1908 as part of the development of artillery and the Cavalry Post. The co... More

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Company Barracks & Band Building, 603-610 & 613 Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Company Barracks & Ban...

Significance: Buildings 603-610 and 613, constructed between 1886 and 1887, represent the Army's earliest efforts to provide adequate housing for the enlisted men assigned to the Military Post at San Antonio. T... More

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street & New Braunfels Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street...

Significance: This ninety-foot high limestone tower, built in 1876-78, stands at the center of the original Quartermaster Depot, now the Headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army, and serves as a focal point for the ... More

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 15 Staff Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 15 Staff Post Road, San Antonio,...

Significance: One of fifteen officers' quarters constructed of similar but varying design on post. Built in the early 1880s, it represents the post's earliest effort to provide housing for officers and their fa... More

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Ant...

Significance: The chapel is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-321-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001352

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Chapel, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Ant...

Significance: The chapel is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-321-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001352

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, B...

Significance: Built in the mid-19th century, the Dashiell House was then one of the more pretentious houses in the Villita area of San Antonio and was, in general, characteristic of this type of dwelling. Today... More

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar...

Written history of site included in field notes Significance: The Jacob Wohlfarth Store and Residence was built circa 1890 on land below the San Pedro Springs Reserve just west of San Pedro Creek. The land was ... More

Francisco Ruiz House, Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Francisco Ruiz House, Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, Brackenridge Park, ...

Survey number: HABS TX-3117 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1943 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 11000513

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

Medina Base National Stockpile Site, Building No. 400, West of I-410, south of U.S. Highway 90, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Medina Base National Stockpile Site, Building No. 400, West of I-410, ...

Significance: Building 400 is an "S" structure designed and constructed 1954-1955 at what was then the Medina Base National Stockpile Site. the Medina Base was built by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Arme... More

Medina Base National Stockpile Site, Building No. 400, West of I-410, south of U.S. Highway 90, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Medina Base National Stockpile Site, Building No. 400, West of I-410, ...

Significance: Building 400 is an "S" structure designed and constructed 1954-1955 at what was then the Medina Base National Stockpile Site. the Medina Base was built by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Arme... More

Ursuline Academy, Chapel, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, Chapel, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar Count...

Significance: This building forms a significant part of the Ursuline Academy buildings and is one of the more stylistically noteworthy of the group. Erected at about the same period (1866-1870) as the Dormitory... More

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Commanding Officer's Quarters, 626 Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Commanding Officer's Q...

Significance: This large two-story brick residence was built for the Commanding Officer of the Military Post of San Antonio and his family. When completed in 1888, the structure was the most notable residence o... More

Charles L. Lege House, 533 West Elmira Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Charles L. Lege House, 533 West Elmira Street, San Antonio, Bexar Coun...

Lege was incorrectly identified as being of French descent on the first drawing. He is of German descent. Significance: The house is a good representative example of the style of residential building erected in... More

O'Henry House, Lone Star Brewery, 600 Lone Star Boulevard, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

O'Henry House, Lone Star Brewery, 600 Lone Star Boulevard, San Antonio...

Survey number: HABS TX-325 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Uhl Store, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Uhl Store, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-315 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Casa Vieja Lime Kiln & Arch, Blue Wing Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Casa Vieja Lime Kiln & Arch, Blue Wing Road, San Antonio, Bexar County...

Survey number: HABS TX-324 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction

Fort Sam Houston, Latrine, Stanley Road behind Barracks No. 143, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Latrine, Stanley Road behind Barracks No. 143, San A...

Significance: The latrine is part of a complex of buildings including two barracks buildings, another latrine and a kitchen and mess hall, all of similar materials and design. The complex, one of four identical... More

Norton-Polk-Mathis House, 401 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Norton-Polk-Mathis House, 401 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar ...

Significance: The Norton-Polk-Mathis House is significant in that it can be traced the evolution of nineteenth century Texas architecture, from the simple stone frontier building, through the typical Victorian ... More

212 Chestnut Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

212 Chestnut Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N444 Survey number: HABS TX-3509 Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Initial Construction

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of New Braunfels Avenue & Grayson Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of...

Significance: The Quartermaster Depot, built of locally quarried stone on land donated by the City of San Antonio, was the first permanent military post at San Antonio. Completed in 1878, the depot replaced a s... More

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of New Braunfels Avenue & Grayson Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of...

Significance: The Quartermaster Depot, built of locally quarried stone on land donated by the City of San Antonio, was the first permanent military post at San Antonio. Completed in 1878, the depot replaced a s... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Church, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Church, Berg's Mill Community, San...

Significance: The church of the Espada features a typical design derived from the plans used by the Franciscan Fathers in their construction of mission buildings. Survey number: HABS TX-320-A National Registe... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Church, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Church, Berg's Mill Community, San...

Significance: The church of the Espada features a typical design derived from the plans used by the Franciscan Fathers in their construction of mission buildings. Survey number: HABS TX-320-A National Registe... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Ursuline Academy, Priest's House, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, Priest's House, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bex...

Significance: This structure is one of the seven Ursuline Academy buildings surviving today and the most stylistically pretentious of them all. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, it is unusual both for the q... More

John Twohig House, Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

John Twohig House, Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, Brackenridge Park, San...

Survey number: HABS TX-31 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1941 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 11000513

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 11 Staff Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 11 Staff Post Road, San Antonio,...

Significance: One of the first fifteen officers' quarters constructed of similar but varying design on Post, built in the early 1880s, the quarters represents the Post's earliest effort to provide housing for o... More

Fort Sam Houston, Band Quarters, Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Band Quarters, Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexa...

Significance: The Band Barracks, one of the last completed buildings in the area now referred to as Infantry Post, provided separate quarters for the Fort Sam Houston Band (previously housed in the center of Sa... More

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Ant...

Significance: This two-and-one=half story yellow brick residence is a good example of officers housing provided on Post during the first decade of the twentieth century. Built in 1906 from standardized plans is... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Storehouse, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Storehouse, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio...

Significance: During the period of Texas frontier in the 19th century, the storehouse was used for the storage of arsenal supplies and ordnance. It was also charged with issuing there supplies to all military p... More

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-332 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1850 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work

207 Center Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

207 Center Street (House), San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N442 Survey number: HABS TX-3506

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar Count...

Significance: Eduard Steves founded a family prominent in San Antonio building, financial and social circles. The house is an excellent example of lavish mansarded Victorian domestic architecture of the 1870s, ... More

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Eduard Steves House, 509 King William Street, San Antonio, Bexar Count...

Significance: Eduard Steves founded a family prominent in San Antonio building, financial and social circles. The house is an excellent example of lavish mansarded Victorian domestic architecture of the 1870s, ... More

Fort Sam Houston, Blacksmith Shop & Tether Wall, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Blacksmith Shop & Tether Wall, San Antonio, Bexar Co...

2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: In June of 1893, the Blacksmith Shop was constructed simultaneously with the Tether Wall to handle the increased blacksmithing needs of the fort. Their presen... More

Newton A. Mitchell House, 209 Washington Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Newton A. Mitchell House, 209 Washington Street, San Antonio, Bexar Co...

Significance: The house in its original state was a good example of pre-Civil War Classical Revival residential architecture in the San Antonio area. With its later Neo-Classical additions it is representative ... More

Newton A. Mitchell House, 209 Washington Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Newton A. Mitchell House, 209 Washington Street, San Antonio, Bexar Co...

Significance: The house in its original state was a good example of pre-Civil War Classical Revival residential architecture in the San Antonio area. With its later Neo-Classical additions it is representative ... More

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street & New Braunfels Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Depot, Water-Watch Tower, Grayson Street...

Significance: This ninety-foot high limestone tower, built in 1876-78, stands at the center of the original Quartermaster Depot, now the Headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army, and serves as a focal point for the ... More

Gustave Uhl House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Gustave Uhl House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-316 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Aqueduct, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Aqueduct, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-322 Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, B...

Significance: Built in the mid-19th century, the Dashiell House was then one of the more pretentious houses in the Villita area of San Antonio and was, in general, characteristic of this type of dwelling. Today... More

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Colonel Jeremiah Y. Dashiell House, 511 Villita Street, San Antonio, B...

Significance: Built in the mid-19th century, the Dashiell House was then one of the more pretentious houses in the Villita area of San Antonio and was, in general, characteristic of this type of dwelling. Today... More

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar...

Written history of site included in field notes Significance: The Jacob Wohlfarth Store and Residence was built circa 1890 on land below the San Pedro Springs Reserve just west of San Pedro Creek. The land was ... More

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Jacob Wohlfarth Store & Residence, 823 West Laurel, San Antonio, Bexar...

Written history of site included in field notes Significance: The Jacob Wohlfarth Store and Residence was built circa 1890 on land below the San Pedro Springs Reserve just west of San Pedro Creek. The land was ... More

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Menger Hotel, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-35 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Commanding Officer's Quarters, 626 Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Military Post of San Antonio, Commanding Officer's Q...

Significance: This large two-story brick residence was built for the Commanding Officer of the Military Post of San Antonio and his family. When completed in 1888, the structure was the most notable residence o... More

Charles L. Lege House, 533 West Elmira Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Charles L. Lege House, 533 West Elmira Street, San Antonio, Bexar Coun...

Lege was incorrectly identified as being of French descent on the first drawing. He is of German descent. Significance: The house is a good representative example of the style of residential building erected in... More

Ursuline Academy, Academy Building, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, Academy Building, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, B...

Significance: This building was the first Academy building erected by the Ursulines after their arrival in San Antonio in 1851. It is the largest known building in Texas constructed of "rammed earth" or pise de... More

Ursuline Academy, 1872 House, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 1872 House, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar C...

Significance: This building, a part of the Ursuline Academy complex and one of seven surviving buildings, is a good example of the plain style of residential stone masonry architecture to be found in this area ... More

Fort Sam Houston, Magazine Building, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Magazine Building, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

2007 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: During Fort Sam Houston's 160 years in operation, it has played a very important role in the United States' history. Immediately after the construction ... More

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of New Braunfels Avenue & Grayson Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Quartermaster Depot, Northwest corner of...

Significance: The Quartermaster Depot, built of locally quarried stone on land donated by the City of San Antonio, was the first permanent military post at San Antonio. Completed in 1878, the depot replaced a s... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fairmount Hotel, 857 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, ...

Significance: The Farimount Hotel is an example of the type of commercial establishments that characterized the prosperity of turn of the century San Antonio. Designed by architect Leo M. J. Deilmann and built ... More

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Streetscape, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-183 Survey number: HABS TX-3303-19 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001950

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 11 Staff Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 11 Staff Post Road, San Antonio,...

Significance: One of the first fifteen officers' quarters constructed of similar but varying design on Post, built in the early 1880s, the quarters represents the Post's earliest effort to provide housing for o... More

Fort Sam Houston, Band Quarters, Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Band Quarters, Infantry Post Road, San Antonio, Bexa...

Significance: The Band Barracks, one of the last completed buildings in the area now referred to as Infantry Post, provided separate quarters for the Fort Sam Houston Band (previously housed in the center of Sa... More

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Chapel, 6539 San Jose Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Chapel, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The small chapel, which adjoins the church on the south side, is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-B National... More

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Chapel, 6539 San Jose Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Chapel, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The small chapel, which adjoins the church on the south side, is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-B National... More

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Ant...

Significance: This two-and-one=half story yellow brick residence is a good example of officers housing provided on Post during the first decade of the twentieth century. Built in 1906 from standardized plans is... More

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Officers' Quarters, 102 Artillery Post Road, San Ant...

Significance: This two-and-one=half story yellow brick residence is a good example of officers housing provided on Post during the first decade of the twentieth century. Built in 1906 from standardized plans is... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Ursuline Academy, 300 Augusta Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Significance: The Ursuline community in San Antonio was the second Ursuline community established in the State of Texas. Introduction of this community in 1851 was a signal achievement for the Reverend John Mar... More

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More

Miraflores Entry Gate, 900 Block of East Hildebrand Avenue, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Miraflores Entry Gate, 900 Block of East Hildebrand Avenue, San Antoni...

STORED ON SITE. mchr 2011 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1727 Survey number: HABS TX-3558

U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Stable, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Stable, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Be...

Significance: The stable building is one of several permanent structures of the San Antonio Arsenal Depot which were erected in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As such, it forms a part of a group of ... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...

Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Judge Thomas J. Devine House, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-332 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1850 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work

Bexar County Courthouse, 20 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Bexar County Courthouse, 20 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Bexar County...

Significance: The building is the latest in a series of courthouse buildings for Bexar County, and by its growth and size is indicative of the progress and development in the area since the last quarter of the ... More

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