Yturri-Edmunds House
a.k.a. See Also:Mission Parkway Historic and Archeological District
257 Yellowstone St., San Antonio, TXThrough its associations with Mission Concepción and the Hispanic community in Texas during the 19th century, the Yturri-Edmunds House (ca. 1859) serves as a link to the Spanish Colonial period and the Hispanic settlers of early Texas history. The period of significance dates from ca. 1730, the estimated date of the earliest Contributing resource, the acequia, part of the irrigation system of Mission Concepción, until 1946, the fifty-year cut-off date for eligibility. Manuel Yturri de Castillo, a prominent merchant who owned property in several locations around San Antonio, acquired agricultural property from Mission Concepción after the mission became secularized during the early 1820s. This land became the site of the current homestead, passed down through the family until 1961 when Yturri's granddaughter Ernestine Edmunds willed the property to the San Antonio Conservation Society. The Yturri-Edmunds House reflects the collective cultural heritage of these Hispanic citizens of San Antonio while also possessing architectural significance as epresentative of a style of domestic, vernacular architecture typical of the Hispanic period in Texas and the American Southwest. Few of these adobe houses remain in San Antonio and the Yturri-Edmunds House stands as the best preserved example. For its relation to the history of Hispanic settlement and the lives of Hispanic settlers, the property is nominated under National Register Criterion A in the area of Ethnic Heritage at the local level of significance. For its representation of a type of construction once common but now rare in San Antonio, the property is nominated under Criterion C in the area of Architecture at the local level of significance.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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