{"nrhp_refnum":"83003092","name":"Thiele House and Thiele Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"411 and 415 Sixth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.429861515000027,"lon":-98.48275314799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent 19th-century houses at 411 and 415 Sixth Street in the Irish Flats area of San Antonio, Texas: the Settlement-style Thiele House (about 1860) and the raised late-Victorian Thiele Cottage (1890), designed by J. Riely Gordon.","why_significant":"The two buildings are rare survivals in one of San Antonio's oldest neighborhoods, showing the shift in architectural style, materials, siting and form during the second half of the 19th century. The cottage is one of few surviving small residential works by architect J. Riely Gordon. Both were owned for an unusually long time by a German-American family.","narrative":"Two neighboring houses on Sixth Street in San Antonio's Irish Flats district show how local building changed across half a century. The earlier, at 415 Sixth Street, is a simple double house of stuccoed limestone with a salt-box roof and a front gallery, built in phases from about 1860 in the Settlement style. Next door, the Thiele Cottage is a raised brick Victorian completed in 1890 for August Thiele Jr., a sporting figure in the city, to designs by architect J. Riely Gordon. Its porch has a horseshoe arch with radiating spindles that may echo bicycle wheels. Gordon, best known for courthouses, left few small residential works that survive. The Thiele family owned the properties for decades, and the older house served as rental property. Both buildings were rehabilitated after 1978 and became city landmarks in 1980. They were listed for their rare architectural survival and their record of changing styles.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"J. Riely Gordon (411 6th)","architectural_style":"Settlement style (Thiele House); late Victorian (Thiele Cottage)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored after a recent rehabilitation; the cottage is used as an architectural office and the house as an interior-design shop.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.875238-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/9711/40971147/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003092.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003092/e79d152fab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003092/e79d152fab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Darryl Pearson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engelman_muench-house2013-2.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Darryl Pearson</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:Engelman_muench-house2013-2.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971147","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001630"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/thiele-house-and-thiele-cottage-83003092/"}