{"nrhp_refnum":"84001903","name":"Masonic Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 Earl Garrett St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kerrville","county":"Kerr County","state":"TX","lat":30.04566464100003,"lon":-99.13993713199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate institutional building of pitched-face native limestone at 211 Earl Garrett Street in central Kerrville, Texas, built in 1890 for the local Masonic lodge and attributed to architect Alfred Giles.","why_significant":"The building is a surviving late-19th-century institutional structure tied to Charles Schreiner, one of Kerr County's most important businessmen and landholders. It is attributed to the noted Texas architect Alfred Giles based on documented ties between Schreiner and Giles. Its unaltered second-floor meeting room and its long use by the Masonic lodge add to its importance.","narrative":"Built in 1890 at 211 Earl Garrett Street, this two-story limestone building in central Kerrville was erected for the local Masonic lodge by merchant and banker Charles Schreiner. Its Italianate design features pitched-face native limestone, cut-stone quoins, segmental and round-arched upper windows, and a pressed-metal cornice with a Masonic symbol. Architect Alfred Giles is credited with the design because of his documented work for Schreiner on other Kerrville buildings, including the Schreiner Store and Bank and Schreiner's residence. Kerrville Lodge No. 697 met upstairs from 1891 until Schreiner's death in 1927, and the unaltered meeting room keeps its pine floors, beaded-board wainscot and grained doors. The ground floor housed a post office, a grocery run by the family behind the H.E.B. name, and later Texas Power and Light, which removed the original street-level arches. The building predates most of its one-story neighbors and remains a distinctive landmark downtown.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Architect: Alfred Giles (attributed); constructed by Charles Schreiner","architectural_style":"Late Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and commercially used at the time of nomination; the first-floor facade was altered in the 1920s and the owner proposed to restore it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.549947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/9727/40972778/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001903.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001903/e328abf3d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001903/e328abf3d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masonic_building_kerrville_2009.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:Masonic_building_kerrville_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972778","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_Building_(Kerrville,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6783665"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/kerr-county/masonic-building-84001903/"}