{"nrhp_refnum":"79002944","name":"Galvez Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2024 Seawall Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Galveston","county":"Galveston County","state":"TX","lat":29.292572994000068,"lon":-94.78575550999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story stuccoed brick beach hotel at 2024 Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, Texas, built in 1910-1911 and designed by the St. Louis firm Mauran and Russell.","why_significant":"It is the oldest large beach hotel in Galveston and one of the few examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the city. It also represents Galveston's deliberate effort to recover from the 1900 hurricane and regain its standing as a major seacoast resort. It remained a social center for the city and hosted prominent guests.","narrative":"Galvez Hotel is a six-story stuccoed brick hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, facing the Gulf of Mexico. Completed in 1911 to a U-shaped plan by the St. Louis firm Mauran and Russell, it features red tile roofs with broad eaves and brackets, mission parapets, round-arched windows, and an eight-story central bay with four hexagonal corner towers. It offered 275 rooms, a ballroom, and a restaurant. The hotel was proposed in 1910 by local businessmen to help re-establish Galveston as a tourist destination after the 1900 hurricane and the city's raising of its grade and construction of a seawall. It is the oldest large beach hotel in the city and one of few Spanish Colonial Revival buildings there. Guests included President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937. Alterations include replaced windows, white paint over the original pink walls, and a 1950 motel addition. The hotel closed in 1978, and its new owners planned rehabilitation.","period_of_significance":"1910-1911","architect_builder":"Mauran and Russell","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied (vacant) at the time of nomination; the hotel closed in 1978 when the new owners bought it, and they planned to rehabilitate it. Condition is marked good and altered.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.057348-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/9720/40972010/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002944.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002944/729b7a4b9c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002944/729b7a4b9c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Adavyd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Galvez_Galveston_Texas_DSC_2903.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Adavyd</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:Hotel_Galvez_Galveston_Texas_DSC_2903.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972010","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Galvez","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5911511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/galveston-county/galvez-hotel-79002944/"}