{"nrhp_refnum":"78003147","name":"San Antonio Missions National Historical Park","other_names":["See Also:Yturri-Edmunds House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Mission and Espada Rds. and San Jose Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.333061583000074,"lon":-98.45755507099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion","Engineering","Architecture","Commerce","Military","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 475-acre historic district in south central San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, containing four Spanish colonial missions (Concepción, San José, San Juan Capistrano and Espada) along about 8 miles of the San Antonio River, plus their dams, acequias, an aqueduct, fields and related sites.","why_significant":"The district preserves the four eighteenth-century mission compounds and the irrigation works that supported them, along with 86 structures and 21 archeological and historical sites spanning more than 260 years. Much of the eighteenth-century architectural envelope, interior space and sculptural embellishment survives. The Espada acequia still functions, and San José conveys the mission compound most fully because of 1930s reconstruction.","narrative":"Four Spanish colonial missions strung along about eight miles of the San Antonio River make up this 475-acre district in south central San Antonio. From north to south they are Concepción, San José, San Juan Capistrano and Espada. Also included are the Espada and San Juan dams and acequias, the aqueduct carrying the Espada ditch over Piedras Creek, the mission fields, and prehistoric, colonial, Mexican and Anglo-American sites linked to the missions. In all, 86 structures and 21 archeological and historical sites record more than 260 years of history. Each mission followed a medieval European plan of enclosing wall, church, friary and Indian quarters. Much of the eighteenth-century character of the buildings remains, though painted decoration has mostly vanished and the compounds have changed. San José, reconstructed in the 1930s, best shows the original compound. Only the Espada acequia still carries water, and urban growth presses on the setting.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Spanish colonial mission architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Altered; the river has been channelized, only the Espada acequia still functions, and Concepción and San José are surrounded by urban development. Southern missions retain a more rural character.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.316445-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/9712/40971281/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/78003147.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003147/f7e9ff16d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78003147/f7e9ff16d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Liveon001 ©Travis Witt","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_Concepcion_San_Antonio.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Liveon001 ©Travis Witt</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:Mission_Concepcion_San_Antonio.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001953","name":"Mission Parkway","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/mission-parkway-75001953/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971281","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Missions_National_Historical_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6629903"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/san-antonio-missions-national-historical-park-78003147/"}