{"nrhp_refnum":"85001132","name":"Old San Francisco Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Missouri St. between No. 325 and 527","address_restricted":false,"city":"El Paso","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.759852969000065,"lon":-106.49417079691662,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A compact historic district of 16 apartment, boarding house and residential buildings along West Missouri Street in El Paso, Texas, built between 1908 and 1923 on part of the former Stevens Addition.","why_significant":"The district reflects El Paso's rapid growth in the first quarter of the 20th century, when the population doubled roughly every ten years and high-density housing was needed near downtown. West Missouri Street was called \"the apartment house street\" by the El Paso Herald in 1911. The buildings show a range of apartment-house designs and scales within a unified streetscape.","narrative":"Sixteen brick apartment buildings, boarding houses and residences line West Missouri Street in El Paso, built between 1908 and 1923 on part of the Stevens Addition, platted in 1904. Thirteen date from before 1916. They share granite retaining walls and foundations quarried from the Franklin Mountains foot, load-bearing brick walls, white-painted wood trim, and symmetrical three-part facades, producing a unified roofline on the sloping terrain. Details vary from Greek Revival columns to the Spanish-Mediterranean Revival Palms Apartments. The district matters because it records El Paso's growth as the city's population rose from about 15,000 in 1900 to nearly 80,000 by 1920, creating demand for housing near downtown. The El Paso Herald called the street the apartment house street in 1911. Construction of Interstate 10 in 1967 cut the district off from Sunset Heights, and neglect has affected many buildings, though residential use continues.","period_of_significance":"1908-1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Varied apartment-house designs, including Greek Revival and Spanish-Mediterranean Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent, good and fair; original residential use still prevails, though buildings and neighborhood have deteriorated. Some buildings have nonhistorical alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.280504-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/9718/40971847/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/85001132.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88002672","name":"Sunset Heights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/sunset-heights-historic-district-88002672/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971847","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999586"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/old-san-francisco-historic-district-85001132/"}