{"nrhp_refnum":"11000651","name":"Alamo Stadium and Gymnasium","other_names":["The Rockpile"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 Tuleta Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.463943790500053,"lon":-98.47995371689157,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Art"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sports complex at 110 Tuleta Drive in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, set in an old limestone quarry pit beside Brackenridge Park. It comprises Alamo Stadium (1940) and a gymnasium (1949), now called the Convocation Center.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its role in San Antonio's recreation and community development, its Art Moderne design by Phelps, Dewees & Simmons, and its WPA-built stadium with large ceramic tile murals. The murals are described as the largest surviving WPA public artworks in San Antonio. The stadium is also the largest high school football stadium in Texas.","narrative":"Alamo Stadium and its gymnasium form a 21.3-acre sports complex about 2.5 miles north of downtown San Antonio, built into an old limestone quarry beside Brackenridge Park. The stadium opened in 1940 as a Works Progress Administration project, and the gymnasium, now the Convocation Center, followed in 1949. Both are concrete buildings faced in local limestone and designed in a rustic Art Moderne style by the firm Phelps, Dewees & Simmons. The stadium fits the quarry's contours, giving it a low profile, and seats 23,000, making it the largest high school football stadium in Texas. The gymnasium seats 5,000. Four glazed tile murals above the west entrance depict a century of local sports. Designed by Henry Wedemeyer with Leonora Feiler and made by sixty WPA workers, they are described as the largest surviving WPA public artworks in San Antonio. The complex was listed for its association with recreation and community development, its architecture, and its art, with a period of significance of 1940 to 1961.","period_of_significance":"1940-1961","architect_builder":"Phelps, Dewees and Simmons, architect; WPA, builder (stadium); Gilbert Falbo Construction Company, builder/contractor (gymnasium)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is a sports facility (stadium and gymnasium); the form says both facilities retain a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.103756-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/9712/40971263/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/11000651.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000651/9908ac7c5a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000651/9908ac7c5a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamo_stadium_entry_2011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alamo_stadium_entry_2011.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/40971263","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Stadium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4705979"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/alamo-stadium-and-gymnasium-11000651/"}