Ethel Wilson Harris House

Historic house in Texas, United States

United States historic place


Ethel Wilson Harris House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


29°21′47″N 98°28′47″W / 29.36306°N 98.47972°W / 29.36306; -98.47972
Area	0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built	1956
Architect	Harris, Robert
Architectural style	Modern Movement, Wrightian
NRHP reference No.	01000325^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 3, 2001

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.^[1]

It is a two-story frame, stone and concrete house, approximately 2,000 square feet (190 m²) in area, that is quite like a Usonian house.^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ethel Wilson Harris House". National Archives. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) (115 pages, including numerous photos and other documents, accessible by searching within National Archives Catalog Archived January 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine)
^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ethel Wilson Harris House". National Park Service. Retrieved February 19, 2017. (88 pages, including numerous photos and other documents) with two photos from 1989
^ [1] Archived January 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, page 40