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TITLE:
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

CALL NUMBER:
HABS TEX,15-SANT.V,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 17  (18 x 24 in. and 24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 49   (4 x 5 in. and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 3 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
De Leon, Gen. Alonso

NOTE:
Survey number HABS TX-320

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-36, FN-188).

Building/structure dates: 1731 initial construction

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildings are of great significance to the study of colonial Texas history, providing the observer some concept of that frontier institution which helped to contribute to the development of Texas. The buildings and ruins at Espada are architecturally important as physical evidence of building practices and techniques of the Spanish colonial period as employed by the Franciscan Fathers.

SUBJECTS:
TEXAS--Bexar County--San Antonio

OTHER TITLE:
Espada Mission
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.tx0015

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 GENERAL VIEW OF CHAPEL AND OLD INDIAN QUARTERS (LOOKING NORTHWEST).
2. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 GENERAL VIEW OF CHAPEL AND RECTORY (LOOKING NORTHWEST).
3. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 GENERAL SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF CHAPEL (EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDES).
4. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 23, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF CHAPEL (EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDES).
5. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 NORTH ELEVATION OF CHAPEL (SIDE).
6. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 23, 1936 WEST ELEVATION OF CHAPEL (REAR).
7. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 DETAIL OF ENTRANCE TO CHAPEL (EAST ELEVATION).
8. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 GATE IN REAR OF CHAPEL (LOOKING WEST).
9. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF RECTORY (EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDE).
10. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 SOUTH ELEVATION OF RECTORY (SIDE).
11. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 23, 1936 SOUTHWEST ELEVATION OF RECTORY (WEST REAR AND SOUTH SIDE).
12. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 23, 1936 EAST ELEVATION OF NORTH WING OF RECTORY.
13. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 NORTH ELEVATION OF INDIAN QUARTERS (FRONT) PART OF GROUP SOUTH OF CHAPEL.
14. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 NORTHWEST ELEVATION OF INDIAN QUARTERS (NORTH FRONT AND WEST SIDE) PART OF GROUP SOUTH OF CHAPEL.
15. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 SOUTHWEST ELEVATION OF RUINS OF INDIAN QUARTERS.
16. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 SOUTH ELEVATION OF RUINS OF INDIAN QUARTERS.
17. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF OLD INDIAN QUARTERS (EAST FRONT AND SOUTH SIDE) FIRST BUILDING IN GROUP NORTH CHAPEL.
18. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF OLD INDIAN QUARTERS (SOUTH FRONT AND EAST SIDE) SECOND BUILDING IN GROUP NORTH OF CHAPEL.
19. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 16, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION OF OLD INDIAN QUARTERS (SOUTH FRONT AND EAST SIDE) THIRD BUILDING IN GROUP NORTH OF CHAPEL.
20. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer, April 13, 1936 SOUTH ELEVATION OF FORT, SOUTHEAST CORNER OF RUINS OF INDIAN QUARTERS.
21. OLD WELL, LOOKING NORTHWEST
22. VIEW SOUTHEAST TOWARD CHURCH; OLD QUARTERS IN FOREGROUND, ALSO PART OF WEST WALL
23. RUINS LOOKING NORTHEAST ON EASTERN HALF OF QUADRANGLE
24. WEST ENTRANCE (IN RUINS), WEST SIDE OF QUADRANGLE
25. WEST ENTRANCE, LOOKING NORTHWEST
26. DETAIL OF WALL EROSION, WEST WALL
27. REMNANT OF EMBATTLEMENT WALL LOOKING WEST ADJACENT AND NORTH OF CHURCH
28. SAME AS TX-320-27
29. SAME AS TX-320-27, LOOKING EAST TOWARD CHURCH
30. SAME AS TX-320-27, LOOKING SOUTHEAST TOWARD CHURCH
31. DETAIL OF ARCADE ADJACENT TO CHURCH'S SOUTH WALL, LOOKING NORTHWEST
32. INTERIOR OF ARCADE, FROM CHURCH'S SOUTH WALL, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
33. RUINS IN EASTERN QUADRANT OF PLAZA, LOOKING WEST
34. RUINS IN NORTHWEST CORNER OF QUADRANGLE, LOOKING WEST
35. RUINS AT SOUTH WALL, LOOKING WEST. THE FOUNDATION AT RIGHT IN THE BACKGROUND HELD THE OLD CHURCH
36. SOUTH WALL
37. DETAIL OF WALL CONSTRUCTION, SOUTH PART OF COMPLEX
38. RECONSTRUCTION WORK ON SOUTH WALL, SOUTH SIDE, LOOKING NORTHWEST
39. SAME AS TX-320-38, LOOKING NORTH
40. SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COMPLEX SHOWING OLD BASTION
41. STRUCTURE TO LEFT OF BASTION, LOOKING NORTH
42. DETAIL OF BASTION
43. VISITOR CENTER (ORIGINAL PURPOSE NOT KNOWN AT TIME OF TYPING) IN SOUTH PART OF COMPLEX, NEAR BASTION
44. INTERIOR OF BASTION. NOTE GUN PORTS
45. INTERIOR OF BASTION. NOTE GUN PORTS
46. HABS TEAM MEASURING A ROOM JUST OUTSIDE OF BASTION
47. VIEW SOUTH OF SAME ROOM
48. ANOTHER ROOM, LOOKING EAST
49. SAME AS TX-320-48, LOOKING NORTHWEST

CONTROL #:
TX0015

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