{"nrhp_refnum":"78002891","name":"Fourth Ward School","other_names":["San Antonio Independant School District Administration Offic"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"141 Lavaca St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.41706090100007,"lon":-98.48668359799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of two-story limestone and quarry-face stone buildings at 141 Lavaca Street in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, built by the City in 1875 as a combined fire station and Fourth Ward School. They now serve as the school district's administration offices.","why_significant":"It is the only surviving building of the five original schools of San Antonio's first school system, established in 1875. It represents the typical two-story limestone grammar school of the period. It also reflects the growth of public education in the city and served prominent families nearby.","narrative":"Two connected stone buildings at 141 Lavaca Street in San Antonio began in 1875 as a city-built structure with a fire station on the first floor and the Fourth Ward School upstairs. They form an L shape joined by an L-shaped porch. Building A is limestone, and Building B is quarry-face stone. Both have hip roofs, gables, and wooden modillions and consoles under the eaves. The fire station left in 1882, when the whole building became the Seventh Ward School. It later served as an annex to Page School before conversion to offices in the late 1920s. It remains the district's administration offices. It is the only survivor of the five schools in the city's first school system, which began in 1875, and it typifies the two-story limestone grammar schools of that era. The architect and builder are unknown, though the work reflects German-Victorian craftsmanship common in the area. Its location near the King William District adds to its local importance.","period_of_significance":"1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian-Italianate (as classified by the San Antonio Historic Survey)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the San Antonio Independent School District Administration Office, with later additions such as concrete porches and a north addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.210676-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/9711/40971193/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/78002891.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"00000773","name":"Lavaca Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/lavaca-historic-district-00000773/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971193","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/fourth-ward-school-78002891/"}