Ethel Wilson Harris House Explained

Ethel Wilson Harris House
Location:6519 San Jose Dr.--San Antonio Missions NHP, San Antonio, Texas
Coordinates:29.3631°N -98.4797°W
Locmap Label:Ethel Wilson Harris House
Built:1956
Architect:Harris, Robert
Architecture:Modern Movement, Wrightian
Added:April 3, 2001
Refnum:01000325

The Ethel Wilson Harris House is a house built in 1956 located in what is now the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, outside the perimeter walls of the Mission San Jose, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. It is a Modern Movement or Wrightian architecture style house built in 1956, designed by Robert Harris.

The house was documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey and is listed in the NRHP for its architecture.

It is a two-story frame, stone and concrete house, approximately 2000square feet in area, that is quite like a Usonian house.[1] [2]

It was a home of artist and conservationist Ethel Wilson Harris. Harris was a supervisor of Arts & Crafts projects for the Works Progress Administration in San Antonio. Two of her tile murals are on the San Antonio River Walk.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Archives . (115 pages, including numerous photos and other documents, accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog)
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=01000325}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ethel Wilson Harris House ]. National Park Service. February 19, 2017 . (88 pages, including numerous photos and other documents) with
  3. http://www.thc.texas.gov/public/upload/preserve/national_register/draft_nominations/San%20Antonio%20Downtown%20and%20River%20Walk%20HD%20SBR.pdf