{"nrhp_refnum":"11000131","name":"Light House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Argyle Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alamo Heights","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.477292146000025,"lon":-98.46983616099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story modernist single-family house at 300 Argyle Avenue in Alamo Heights, Bexar County, Texas, built in 1961 for Patsy and Walter Scott Light to designs by architect Brooks Martin.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a fine, high-style example of midcentury modernism, with regional touches such as Saltillo tile and Mexican brick. It is one of the few residential designs by San Antonio architect Brooks Martin. It also features an innovative stacked-concrete-bag foundation and a landscape designed to preserve mature trees.","narrative":"Built in 1961 on a wooded corner lot in Alamo Heights, north of downtown San Antonio, the Light House is a one-story residence designed by architect Brooks Martin with associate Howard Wong for Patsy and Walter Scott Light. Its centerpiece is a glass living room pavilion raised two feet on a foundation of stacked dry concrete bags, with flat roofs, steel tube columns, stucco walls and floor-to-ceiling glazing. Saltillo tile floors and Mexican brick walls and chimney give it a regional character. The plan was laid out on a four-foot grid, and the house was arranged to save most of the lot's old live oak, pecan and cedar elm trees. Landscape architects James Keeter and Stewart King designed the gardens. The house received a 1963 Texas Society of Architects award of merit. It was listed for its local architectural significance as a high-style midcentury modernist home and as one of Martin's few residential works. It remains a private single-family home.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect Brooks Martin, in association with Howard Wong; landscape architects James Keeter and Stewart King","architectural_style":"Modern Movement (midcentury modernism, with regional modernist elements)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form lists its current function as domestic/single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.977394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/9711/40971133/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/11000131.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000131/8726ee8280-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000131/8726ee8280-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Glen Campbell","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_House,_Alamo_Heights,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Campbell</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_House,_Alamo_Heights,_TX.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"11000513","name":"Brackenridge Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/brackenridge-park-11000513/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971133","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/light-house-11000131/"}