Main and Military Plazas Historic District

Main and Military Plazas Historic District
Spanish Military Governor's Palace
Location: Roughly bounded by San Antonio River, E. Nueva, Laredo, and Houston Sts., San Antonio, Texas
Built: 1722
Architect: Multiple
Architectural style: Early Commercial, Late Victorian, Colonial
Governing body: Local
NRHP Reference#: 79002914
Added to NRHP: June 11, 1979[1]

Main and Military Plazas Historic District is a historic district in San Antonio, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1].

The area encompasses the old Presidio San Antonio de Bexar[2], where the Spanish troops and the military Governor of Texas were stationed.[3]

It includes the following separately listed Registered Historic Places:

one or more of which are National Historic Landmarks of the U.S.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ "SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR PRESIDIO," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uqs02), accessed April 23, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  3. ^ Edmonson (2000), p. 14.

See also

Holiday Inn Express Riverwalk Area, a contributing structure, formerly the Old Bexar County Jail

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