{"nrhp_refnum":"70000741","name":"Spanish Governor's Palace","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105 Military Plaza","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.424947135000025,"lon":-98.49566453999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-04-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1970-04-15","areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story stone Spanish colonial townhouse at 105 Military Plaza in downtown San Antonio, Texas, bearing a keystone dated 1749. It served as the comandancia of the presidio of San Antonio de Bexar and is now a city-owned museum.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent, well-restored example of a large Spanish colonial townhouse and the only remaining aristocratic eighteenth-century Spanish residence in Texas. It is also tied to the military history of the presidio, as the headquarters and residence of the presidio captain.","narrative":"Facing Military Plaza in downtown San Antonio, this long, low stone building is a Spanish colonial townhouse with three-foot-thick lime-plastered walls, a flat roof behind a parapet, and wrought iron window grills. A keystone over the carved main door bears the arms of the Hapsburgs and the date 1749. Inside are ten rooms and a loft, with flagstone or tile floors, hand-hewn cypress rafters, and rooms opening onto a walled rear patio with a fountain and well. It served as the comandancia, the headquarters and residence of the captain of the presidio of San Antonio de Bexar. Two families owned it for 165 years before the City of San Antonio bought it in 1928. It later housed a school, a clothing store, a restaurant, and a bar. Architect Harvey P. Smith directed its restoration in 1929-30. It is considered the only surviving example in Texas of an aristocratic eighteenth-century Spanish residence, and it now operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":"18th Century (specific date 1749)","architect_builder":"Harvey P. Smith, architect (1929-30 restoration)","architectural_style":"Spanish colonial townhouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, altered, on its original site, and open to visitors as a museum furnished with Spanish Colonial period pieces.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.927912-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/9712/40971205/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/70000741.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000741/54a24c1c21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000741/54a24c1c21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_TX_Spanish_Govenors_Palace.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_TX_Spanish_Govenors_Palace.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79002914","name":"Main and Military Plazas Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/main-and-military-plazas-historic-district-79002914/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971205","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Governor%27s_Palace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6564718"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/spanish-governors-palace-70000741/"}