Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: Cavalry and Light Artillery Post

Year: 2003

Summary

Fort Sam Houston’s buildings exhibit a variety of architectural influences because of its incremental development. Its four posts, the Quadrangle and Staff Post, Infantry Post, Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, and New Post, are excellent visual records of the Army’s planning ideals and the architectural styles employed during their respective construction periods. The various architectural styles included Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Classical Revival, and Romanesque.

In the Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, the Colonial Revival style was used widely in the design of buildings, including officers’ quarters, barracks, mess halls, and latrines. The Gift Chapel on the western end of the Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, however, is an example of Classical Revival architecture.

Cite this Record

Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: Cavalry and Light Artillery Post. 2003 ( tDAR id: 436395) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8436395

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Site Type
Church / Religious Structure • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Governmental Structure • Historic Church / Religious Structure • Historic Governmental Structure • Non-Domestic Structures

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

General
Colonial Revival Style

Geographic Keywords
Bexar (County) • JBSA-Sam Houston • San Antonio • Texas

Spatial Coverage

min long: -98.477; min lat: 29.44 ; max long: -98.4; max lat: 29.487 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

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

Repository(s): Fort Sam Houston

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