{"nrhp_refnum":"83003797","name":"McKie-Bass Building","other_names":["Hays County Abstract Company Building","See Also:Hays County C"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 N. Guadalupe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Marcos","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":29.873455721000028,"lon":-97.94162125199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story commercial building at 111 North Guadalupe Street on the west side of the courthouse square in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, erected in 1893 with a cast-iron first-floor shopfront and a red-brick second story.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only commercial building in San Marcos that has kept its cast-iron front. It is also one of the outstanding 19th-century structures on the courthouse square, with well-preserved features. It was originally one of three identical buildings, and the adjoining two lost their cast-iron facades.","narrative":"Located at 111 North Guadalupe Street on the west side of the Hays County courthouse square in San Marcos, this two-story commercial building was put up in 1893 by W.R. and Daniel McKie and their sister Jennie McKie Hutchins as an investment. Its three-bay first-floor shopfront, made by Mesker Bros. Front Builders of St. Louis, is cast iron with a metal cornice, both showing stylized foliate motifs. The red-brick second story has windows set in niches with segmental arches and zigzag brickwork. Inside, a pressed-tin ceiling survives above a modern first-floor interior, along with a Mosler vault door from the old First National Bank. Early uses included a grocery, a drugstore run by C.T. Bass and his son, and a hardware business. It was once one of three identical buildings. The neighboring two lost their cast-iron fronts, leaving this one as the only commercial building in San Marcos with its original iron facade intact.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific date 1893)","architect_builder":"Mesker Bros. Front Builders, St. Louis (first-floor front); erected by W.R. and Daniel McKie and Jennie McKie Hutchins","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied for commercial use by an abstract company.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.381843-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/9695/40969535/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003797.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003797/d57ce61223-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003797/d57ce61223-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKie_bass_building_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKie_bass_building_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969535","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/mckie-bass-building-83003797/"}