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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28L1_king-william-neighborhood_San-Antonio-TX.html
The river followed an irregular course through the town center and irrigated the lower farmlands of Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo) to the south. After the mission was secularized 1793, the surrounding fields were distributed to Indians …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KZ_carl-wilhelm-august-groos-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
One of the founders of the Groos National Bank, Carl W. Goos (1830-1893) came to Texas from Germany in 1848. The Groos home, designed by Alfred Giles, was built in 1880 by John H. Campmann. Porch detailing on the Victorian residence reveals Gothic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KY_norton-polk-mathis-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
This site, from lower lands of Mission San Antonio de Valero, later part of the Vicente Amador Spanish Grant, was bought 1869 by merchant Russel C. Norton, who began building in 1876. House grew with additions of a second story, Victorian Gingerbr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KX_sartor-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Designed by prominent San Antonio architect Alfred Giles, this home was built in 1881 for Alexander Sartor, Jr. A native of Germany, Sartor came to San Antonio in the mid-nineteenth century and established a jewelry business. After he sold the hou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KW_carl-hilmar-guenther-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by The United States Department of the Interior 1990
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KV_biesenbach-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
A German immigrant, August Biesenbach (1848-1915) and his wife, Louisa (1852-1916), began construction of this house in 1880. The walls of the house are stucco over brick with a hipped roof and Gothic Revival details. From 1910 to 1955, the house …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KQ_old-edward-steves-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Excellent example of lavish Victorian architecture of late 1800s. Built in 1874 by German immigrant Edward Steves, founder of a family prominent in city financial and social circles. Stuccoed limestone exterior walls are 13" thick. The richly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KP_edward-steves-homestead_San-Antonio-TX.html
Given in 1952 by his granddaughter, Edna Steves Vaughan, and her husband, Curtis T. Vaughan. Owned, restored and maintained as a house museum by the San Antonio Conservation Society.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KM_elias-and-lucy-edmonds-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Former Confederate officer and Virginia state legislator Elias Edmonds married Lucy Noyes Hall in 1871, and they moved to San Antonio that year. In 1877, they built one of the first houses in the King William neighborhood. Elias was a successful …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KI_alfred-giles-house_San-Antonio-TX.html
Alfred Giles is remembered as a major architect who designed many edifices throughout Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1853 in Hillingdon, Middlesex County, England, Giles spent his early days as an architect's apprentice…
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