City of San Antonio Municipal Auditorium
100 Auditorium Circle, San Antonio, TXThe San Antonio Municipal Auditorium is a historic building that is a valuable cultural landmark and visual focal point of the city of San Antonio.
The San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, originally built as a memorial to American soldiers killed during World War I, is a valuable cultural landmark and visual focal point of the city of San Antonio. A myriad of important social, political, religious, and cultural events have contributed to its role in the making of the city's history. Architecturally, it is one of the finest examples of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style to be found in a public building in Texas. It was designed during the height of the Spanish Colonial Revival craze, which spread from California to Florida, by the firm of Atlee B. Ayres & Associates of San Antonio. Ayres and his fellow associates were responsible for a significant amount of fine architecture in San Antonio and Texas.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.