{"nrhp_refnum":"72001350","name":"La Villita Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Durango, Navarro, Alamo Sts. and San Antonio River","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.420506632500036,"lon":-98.48929467038718,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 15-acre historic district in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, bounded by Durango, Navarro, Alamo and the San Antonio River, containing twenty-seven notable mostly 19th-century vernacular masonry buildings near the Alamo and downtown.","why_significant":"The district is described as a European-type quarter reflecting the Spanish, European and American influences that shaped San Antonio. It preserves a visual record of simple vernacular building types of nineteenth-century Texas, including Mexican-era and German immigrant structures. A 1939 restoration by the city, the San Antonio Conservation Society and the National Youth Administration saved a sample of buildings once typical across the city.","narrative":"La Villita is a 15-acre district in San Antonio, four blocks from the Alamo and beside downtown, bounded by Durango, Navarro, Alamo and the San Antonio River. It holds twenty-seven notable buildings, mostly simple masonry houses of stucco-covered brick, adobe, caliche block or stone, along with a reconstructed palisado house, a church of 1876 and a German-English school begun in 1859. The site was once a Coahuiltecan village and later a Spanish-era barrio, with the name La Villita recorded in 1792. German immigrants arrived in the 1840s, followed by Swiss and French settlers, giving the quarter a European character. After decaying into a slum in the early twentieth century, it was restored in a two-year project begun in 1939 by the city, the San Antonio Conservation Society and the National Youth Administration. The district was listed for preserving a record of vernacular nineteenth-century Texas architecture and the layered cultures of San Antonio.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Alfred Giles (added the 1881 Victorian front to the Manuel Yturri House)","architectural_style":"Simple vernacular masonry (Mexican-Spanish and Germanic vernacular), with some Victorian buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and altered; occupied by arts groups, offices and a museum use. Three buildings south of Villita Street are in poor condition and in danger of destruction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.308363-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/9711/40971149/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/72001350.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001350/aa480ee5bf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001350/aa480ee5bf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Johnpeter2008 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Villita,_San_Antonio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnpeter2008 at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Villita,_San_Antonio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971149","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Villita","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6465837"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/la-villita-historic-district-72001350/"}