{"nrhp_refnum":"72001354","name":"Old Lone Star Brewery","other_names":["See Also:Old Lone Star Brewery (Boundary Increase)"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 West Jones Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.43707752800003,"lon":-98.48168555799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-10-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of brewery buildings at 110-116 Jones Avenue in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, erected section by section from 1895 to 1904 for the Lone Star Brewing Company. A detached office building stands on the next block to the east.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant for its architecture and for its role in industry. It was designed by the St. Louis firm E. Jungenfeld and Co. with San Antonio's Wahrenberger and Beckman as supervising architects, and it applied the brewing technology of the day. It housed what became the largest brewery in Texas, backed by Adolphus Busch.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1895 and 1904, the Old Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio is a complex of five connected sections ranging from two to five stories, with a tower and an open bridge joining the two highest portions. Brick bearing walls and interior iron members make it fireproof. The design came from E. Jungenfeld and Co. of St. Louis, specialists in brewery architecture who worked on Anheuser-Busch plants, with San Antonio architects Wahrenberger and Beckman as supervising architects. The brewery opened in 1884 and grew into the largest in Texas, with annual capacity above 250,000 barrels, under the direction of Adolphus Busch. A villa-style office building stands on the next block east, and service buildings at the rear once formed a landscaped garden. After Prohibition the plant made a short-lived soft drink and then served as warehouse space. The Witte Museum later selected it for restoration as a cultural center.","period_of_significance":"1895-1904","architect_builder":"E. Jungenfeld and Co. of St. Louis (designers); Wahrenberger and Beckman of San Antonio (supervising architects)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair, unaltered, on its original site, and unoccupied. It was used for warehouse and storage purposes after Prohibition, and the Witte Museum chose it for restoration and conversion into a cultural center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.177318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/9712/40971201/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/72001354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001354/948dcc7a56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001354/948dcc7a56-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FirstLoneStarBrewery.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FirstLoneStarBrewery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971201","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Lone_Star_Brewery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16896163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/old-lone-star-brewery-72001354/"}