{"nrhp_refnum":"80004078","name":"San Antonio Casino Club Building","other_names":["Casino Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 W. Crockett St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.424875218000068,"lon":-98.48863401799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story brown brick and poured concrete clubhouse with a basement and a flatiron-shaped plan at 102 West Crockett Street, San Antonio, Texas, completed in 1927 beside the San Antonio River.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is visually unique for combining Art Deco massing with Mayan-inspired cast concrete detailing, an unusual style in Texas. It also commemorates the 1925 merger of two 19th-century social clubs, one German-Texan and one Anglo-Texan, which built it as an elegant clubhouse.","narrative":"Rising six stories above a basement on a flatiron-shaped lot beside the San Antonio River, this brown brick and poured concrete building at 102 West Crockett Street was completed in 1927 as a clubhouse. Its design combines Art Deco massing with Mayan-inspired cast concrete ornament and a stairstepped, domed central tower, an unusual pairing in Texas. Two social clubs, one founded in 1854 by German San Antonians and another formed in 1881, merged in 1925 and built it for game rooms, banquet halls, a ballroom and dormitory space. Kelwood Company handled the architectural work, and Heath and Kinsey Construction Company built it. The Depression led to repossession and a public auction in 1940. Later owners included an oil company and an insurance firm, followed by a period of declining use that included a short-lived youth hostel during the 1968 World's Fair. By 1979 the upper floors were being converted to apartments and the river level to shops.","period_of_significance":"1927","architect_builder":"Kelwood Company (architectural work); Heath and Kinsey Construction Company (contractor)","architectural_style":"Art Deco with Mayan-inspired detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Interior conversion into forty apartments and seven ground and river level retail spaces was underway at the time of nomination; the building was in good condition and largely unaltered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.339077-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/9712/40971223/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004078.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004078/4a85fb32ba-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004078/4a85fb32ba-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Darrylpearson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casino-club2016-3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Darrylpearson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casino-club2016-3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971223","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107318463"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/san-antonio-casino-club-building-80004078/"}