{"nrhp_refnum":"75002011","name":"Fort McIntosh","other_names":["Laredo Junior College"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Laredo Junior College campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Laredo","county":"Webb County","state":"TX","lat":27.50801623050006,"lon":-99.52055872682895,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort McIntosh is a historic military post district on the Rio Grande in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, now on the Laredo Junior College campus. Construction of the earthen star fort began in 1853, and the surviving buildings date mainly from the 1870s to 1890s.","why_significant":"The fort served in the U.S. Army from 1849 until its closure in 1947, anchoring the center of the Texas border defense line. It retains many 1870s-1890s buildings and the ruins of the original earthen star fort. It also figured in military aviation history through a 1911 cross-country test flight to Eagle Pass.","narrative":"Fort McIntosh is a military post district on a bluff above the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas. The Army occupied the site from 1849 until 1947, and work on a star-shaped earthen fort began in December 1853. Ruins of that fort remain, along with a stone magazine and a 1930s WPA wall that now marks the district boundary. Surviving buildings from the 1870s to 1890s include the quartermaster's storehouse, the commissary, non-commissioned staff quarters, Victorian-detailed officers' quarters, one of three 1880 barracks, a chapel, a guardhouse and the 1885 post hospital. The fort guarded the Mexican frontier, saw Union, Confederate and later Army garrisons, and in 1911 was the starting point of a cross-country test flight of a Wright Type B airplane to Eagle Pass. After the fort closed, the land passed to Laredo Junior College, which uses many of the buildings and has built new classrooms on the former parade ground.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Laredo Junior College and in educational use. Some buildings serve as faculty housing, offices and a bookstore, while modern classroom buildings and parking lots now occupy the former parade ground.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.080954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/9739/40973948/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/75002011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002011/6bc91b45e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75002011/6bc91b45e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Copernico Contreras","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_McIntosh_Bakery_1869_North_Side.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Copernico Contreras</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:Fort_McIntosh_Bakery_1869_North_Side.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973948","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McIntosh,_Texas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471628"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/webb-county/fort-mcintosh-75002011/"}