National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Author(s): Martha Doty Freeman

Year: 1998

Summary

The Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District forms the oldest and most complete concentration of administrative, residential, recreational, service, warehouse, and training properties at Camp Bullis. The district is located in the southern portion of the camp and contains 135 buildings, structures, objects, and sites, of which 82 are Contributing and 53 are Noncontributing elements. The historic resources of the District comprise a complex of properties constructed between 1917 and 1945 to provide residential, training, work, and recreational facilities for officers and men attached to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. These resources are in good condition and retain a high degree of integrity of location, setting, feeling, design, workmanship, materials, and association. Ten property types and two architectural styles are found within the district. These are Housing, Administration Buildings, Service/Support Facilities, Recreation and Entertainment Facilities, Shops, Warehouses, Training Devices, Utilities and Infrastructure, Landscape Features, and Facility Plans. Most of the buildings are simple but well-designed and executed one-story, wood-frame, or stone examples of military architecture of the 1930s and 1940s; a few houses are reflective of modified Bungalow design. Infrastructure and landscape features, including roadways, stone walls and culverts, and bridges complement the buildings. These elements are organized around a facility plan that reflects a distinctive and innovative type of military planning and creates a sense of time and place that distinguishes the cantonment area.

Cite this Record

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Martha Doty Freeman. 1998 ( tDAR id: 405461) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8405461

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Heritage Management

General
Building 602a • Building 626 • Building 646 • Building 647 • Building 648 • renovation

Geographic Keywords
Bexar (County) • Camp Bullis • Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District • Camp Bullis Military Reservation • Leon Springs Military Reservation • San Antonio • Texas

Spatial Coverage

min long: -98.693; min lat: 29.588 ; max long: -98.435; max lat: 29.853 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio

Repository(s): Fort Sam Houston

Prepared By(s): National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District

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Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio