{"nrhp_refnum":"06001233","name":"Gunter Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"205 E. Houston St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.428513899000052,"lon":-98.49138907899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-01-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 12-story hotel at 205 East Houston Street in downtown San Antonio, Texas. The original 8-story building was built in 1907-09 and expanded in 1926.","why_significant":"The visible text shows the hotel as a major part of downtown San Antonio's early 20th-century growth, built to serve visitor and tourist business. It was designed by a St. Louis firm and enlarged by the Baker Hotel Company in 1926. The statement of significance and the criteria are cut off in the supplied text, so the full argument is not visible.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories at the corner of East Houston and North St. Mary's Streets in downtown San Antonio, this hotel began as an eight-story building completed in 1909. Ernest J. Russell of the St. Louis firm Mauran, Russell and Garden designed it, and developers L.J. Hart and the San Antonio Hotel Company built it to serve the city's growing visitor trade. The Baker Hotel Company bought it in 1924 and, with architect Herbert S. Green, added three stories and a convention floor in 1926. The exterior is beige brick with white terra cotta, red brick and mosaic tile detailing, including arched third-floor windows and a full-length second-floor balcony, later glassed in. A major remodeling between 1980 and 1985 replaced the windows, altered the ground floor and added a parking garage. The lobby remains largely as it looked in 1926, and the building continues to operate as a hotel with 322 guest rooms.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ernest J. Russell of Mauran, Russell and Garden (original design); Herbert S. Green (1926 remodeling and expansion)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Skyscraper","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a hotel, with lobby, restaurant and bar on the first floor and 322 guest rooms on the upper floors.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.676938-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/9711/40971177/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/06001233.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001233/91f9ddda7e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001233/91f9ddda7e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"intenteffect","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheraton_Gunter_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">intenteffect</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sheraton_Gunter_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971177","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5619437"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/gunter-hotel-06001233/"}