{"nrhp_refnum":"83003799","name":"San Marcos Milling Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Nicola Alley","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Marcos","county":"Hays County","state":"TX","lat":29.876139437000063,"lon":-97.93869364699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large L-shaped, two-story wood-frame warehouse with basement, clad in corrugated metal, on Nicola Alley in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas. It was built around 1910 as a furniture plant and later used as a flour mill, a dairy and a storage warehouse.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest known industrial building in San Marcos. Although it has no defined architectural style, its mass is dramatic, and remnants of its milling and dairy operations illustrate industries that mattered to the town. It is listed under the area of industry.","narrative":"Rising nearly 50 feet at its gable peak, this L-shaped warehouse on Nicola Alley in San Marcos is the oldest known industrial building in the city. Its wood frame is sheathed in corrugated metal, and each arm runs more than 100 feet. It began in 1910 as the Acme Manufacturing Company, a furniture plant that also made a sanitary cigar showcase, but closed the next year. In 1914 the San Marcos Milling Company took over, and its sifting and grading equipment still survives in the east wing. H. A. Nelson bought the property in 1922 and ran a Holstein dairy, milking cows in the basement and bottling milk upstairs until the herd was sold in 1931. During the 1930s the north end hosted dances for the local Mexican-American community, and cotton seed was stored here for years. Since the 1950s it has served as a storage warehouse. Its scale and surviving mill and dairy features illustrate the town's early industries.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Not an example of a defined architectural style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition fair and altered; unoccupied at the time of nomination, with commercial storage as the present use. The basement is in disrepair and part of the second floor has caved in.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.407327-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9695/40969579/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003799.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003799/df080dad44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003799/df080dad44-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Paul Watters","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Marcos_Milling_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Watters</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:San_Marcos_Milling_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969579","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002230"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/hays-county/san-marcos-milling-company-83003799/"}