Travelers Hotel
220 Broadway, San Antonio, TXThe 1914 Travelers Hotel in central San Antonio, Texas, is a seven-story reinforced concrete building with a brick veneer and classical terra cotta detailing that incorporated essential elements of fireproof construction techniques within its framework. The building features retail spaces and a lobby on the ground floor and simple guestrooms along a single straight corridor on the upper floors, and stands as an important local example of a mid-rise commercial building that compliments the other early 20h century buildings of similar scale that line the Broadway corridor. Designed to fit the lodging needs of a growing segment of budget business travelers, the hotel offered basic amenities at affordable prices, with flexible room configurations that provided an opportunity for salesmen to conduct their business in adjoining rooms. The building is nominated to the National Register under Criterion A in the area of Commerce and Criterion C in the area of Architecture, as a distinctive mid-rise budget hotel within the central business district, with a period of significance extending from its construction in 1914 through the completion of the seventh floor, c.1928.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
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