{"nrhp_refnum":"88002547","name":"Iglesia Santa Maria","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7 West Ave. N","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Angelo","county":"Tom Green County","state":"TX","lat":31.442585386000076,"lon":-100.43487960699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Mission Revival church with a Basilican plan at 7 West Avenue N in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, built in 1930. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"It is a late example of the relatively scarce Mission Revival buildings still standing in San Angelo. It was built to serve a growing Hispanic membership in the south barrios and has remained a focal point of the community's social and cultural life, hosting fiestas and neighborhood meetings and serving as a relief site during the 1936 flood.","narrative":"Iglesia Santa Maria is a brick Catholic church at 7 West Avenue N in San Angelo, completed in 1930 in the Mission Revival style. It is rectangular with a Basilican plan. The symmetrical front has a concrete-capped curvilinear gable and a small belfry with a convex roof. A shallow clay tile roof over deeply recessed triple entrance doors suggests a portico, and the fanlighted doors sit under brick arches carried on Tuscan columns. Other details include a Spanish quatrefoil rose window, cartouches and round-headed windows. The church was built as Catholic membership grew, especially in the Hispanic community of the south barrios, after the Catholic church had been active in the area since the 1870s. It is valued locally as a late example of the scarce Mission Revival buildings in the city. It has also served as a place for fiestas and neighborhood meetings, and it provided relief during the flood of 1936. It is still used for worship and is in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mission Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition is good, the site is original, and the church remains an active place of worship.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.162855-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9701/40970179/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/88002547.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002547/7159ba8594-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002547/7159ba8594-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Santa_Maria,_San_Angelo,_TX.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Santa_Maria,_San_Angelo,_TX.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970179","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107330905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tom-green-county/iglesia-santa-maria-88002547/"}