{"nrhp_refnum":"86000725","name":"Havana, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1015 Navarro St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Antonio","county":"Bexar County","state":"TX","lat":29.430610546000025,"lon":-98.48976000399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Havana is a three-story masonry building at 1015 Navarro Street in San Antonio, Texas, beside the San Antonio River near the Romana Street Bridge. It was built in 1913 to designs by architect Arthur J. Herrmann.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the Havana as an important and uncommon San Antonio example of early 20th-century classicism. Its design does not follow the Italian or Spanish Renaissance prototypes dominant before World War I and instead uses a generalized Mediterranean character. Herrmann is described as a relatively obscure architect with no other known comparable works, and later San Antonio architects turned to Mexican colonial forms.","narrative":"Built in 1913 at 1015 Navarro Street, the Havana is a three-story load-bearing masonry building on the bank of the San Antonio River, beside the Romana Street Bridge. Architect Arthur J. Herrmann gave it twin three-story front towers, broad bracketed eaves, a three-tiered verandah between the towers, and a red pressed-metal fish-scale roof. The light tan brick walls contrast with white cast-stone sills, lintels and balusters. The building is free-standing, unlike the row buildings typical of downtown San Antonio. Its design is unusual for the period because it does not copy Italian or Spanish Renaissance models, the dominant forms before World War I, and draws on a generalized Mediterranean look suited to the warm climate and the river setting. Herrmann is not known to have produced comparable work elsewhere, and San Antonio architects soon turned toward Mexican colonial forms. The Havana therefore stands as an uncommon local example of early twentieth-century design.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Arthur J. Herrmann (architect); Ed F. Melcher (builder)","architectural_style":"Early 20th-century classicism with Mediterranean character (Chateauesque profile)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as private and commercial with work in progress; the building is noted as altered somewhat inside, with many original walls intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.735843-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/9711/40971117/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/86000725.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000725/1dce826fd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000725/1dce826fd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Havana_Hotel,_San_Antonio,_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</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:The_Havana_Hotel,_San_Antonio,_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971117","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bexar-county/havana-the-86000725/"}