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Floor Plan - Herrera Ruiz House, Garza's Crossing at Medina River, Somerset, Bexar County, TX
Photographer
Jimenez, Jaime
Title
Floor Plan - Herrera Ruiz House, Garza's Crossing at Medina River, Somerset, Bexar County, TX
Description
Pemberton, Sue Ann, FAIA, faculty sponsor; James, John, field team; Gonzalez, Robert R., field team
Depicted place Texas; Bexar County; Somerset
Date 2011
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS TX-400 (sheet 3 of 8)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • STORED ON SITE. mchr
  • 2011 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place
  • Significance: The Blas Herrera House has a dual significance. First, the structure itself is a rare surviving example of a nineteenth-century building type called a jacal, a type of vernacular construction found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. Jacales such as this one were constructed of local materials by persons of Spanish and Mexican heritage to serve as homes in towns and on ranches from the early eighteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth century. Only five such jacales remain in Bexar County, Texas. Secondly, the home and surrounding site are associated with members of the Ruiz and Herrera families, both important in the region's history and development. Not only did they play an important part in the political leadership of the region (e.g., they were municipal office holders and took part in two wars of independence), but also they were part of the Tejano ranching communities that settled and populated areas of Texas in the nineteenth century. Blas Herrera, one of the most notable residents of the house, is attributed with alerting the defenders of the Alamo of the approaching Mexican army, earning him the nickname 'the Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution.'
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1714
  • Survey number: HABS TX-400
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1845- before. 1865 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx1145.sheet.00003a
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Object location29° 16′ 55.28″ N, 98° 14′ 31.38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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