The 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District survives nearly intact from San Antonio’s Gilded Age, when newly-prosperous residents built the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. Here architects drawn to the burgeoning city from across the country designed homes both elaborate and modest in an unusual variety of styles, from Queen Anne to Prairie to Tudor to Spanish Colonial Revival.
Longtime Trinity University history professor Donald Everett outlines the creative designs which shape Monte Vista as well as the lifestyles of those who lived there during the heady times when San Antonio was the largest city in the largest state. Included is a separate index of notable homes, churches, schools and commercial buildings listed by their architect.
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