{"nrhp_refnum":"98000427","name":"Fort Bliss Main Post Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Fort Bliss","address_restricted":false,"city":"El Paso","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.810888976000058,"lon":-106.4354879662081,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Military","Industry","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A federal military historic district at the main post of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, made up of 346 contributing resources built by the U.S. Army between 1891 and the late 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its role in U.S. Army military history, including establishing a permanent Army presence on the U.S.-Mexican border. It also represents the Army's standardized architecture and its landscape and community planning. The form groups the contributing resources into seven construction periods from 1891 to 1950.","narrative":"Fort Bliss Main Post Historic District occupies a mesa in El Paso, Texas, about three miles north of the Rio Grande, with the Franklin Mountains to the west. It contains 346 contributing resources, including 343 buildings, a site and two structures, built by the U.S. Army from 1891 to the late 1940s. The earliest group, from the 1890s, includes brick hospital buildings, barracks, a guardhouse, and rows of officers' quarters. Officers' housing lines the west side of the parade ground, while barracks and support buildings line the east. Styles range from Queen Anne and Greek Revival to Colonial Revival and Mission-influenced designs, many based on Quartermaster General standard plans. The post grew from a small infantry outpost into a major cavalry station and later an air defense training and missile testing center. It was recognized for its military history, its architecture, and the planning and landscape design of the main post. Later buildings that were temporary or altered, or built after the period of significance, are counted as non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1891-1948","architect_builder":"U.S. Army","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Pueblo, Italian Renaissance; Bungalow/Craftsman, Prairie School; no style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed in the form are still military facility, industrial storage, institutional housing and plaza; some buildings have been adapted to new uses, and one hospital isolation ward is listed as inactive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.807211-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9718/40971879/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/98000427.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000427/5350f725b0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000427/5350f725b0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"knaverob","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_Main_Post_Historic_District_2012-09-02_13-44-45.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">knaverob</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:Fort_Bliss_Main_Post_Historic_District_2012-09-02_13-44-45.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971879","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss_Main_Post_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65121339"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/fort-bliss-main-post-historic-district-98000427/"}