Petty House (San Antonio)
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Petty House is a historic Victorian house located at 10 10th Street, San Antonio, Texas along the San Antonio River Walk.[1]
History
[edit]Mary Drake built the house in 1895 in an area known as Milam Bend.[2] After moving to the area, businessman Van Alvin Petty Sr. (1860–1929) and his wife Mary Cordelia née Dabney (1861–1943) purchased the house in November 1901.[2][3] The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76, the largest and oldest VFW post in Texas, purchased the house in 1947 and has been located there ever since.[1][4]
The City of San Antonio designated it a historic landmark in 2008 followed by the State of Texas in 2017.[1][2]
External links
[edit]1965 photo from the San Antonio Conservation Society website
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Dyhouse, Janie, "'We Just Keep Getting Better and Better'", VFW Magazine, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri, volume 112, number 3, November/December 2024, page 39.
- ^ a b c "Petty House" historical marker, HMdb.org The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved November 7, 2024.
- ^ Kristi M. Ulrich, Barbara A. Meissner and Maria Watson Pfeiffer with a contribution from I. Wayne Cox, "Archaeological Monitoring of the Urban Reach Section of the San Antonio River Improvement Project: San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas", Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Archaeological Report Number 407, 2009, pages 50-53.
- ^ Rebecca Salinas, "Historic VFW Post 76 in downtown San Antonio vandalized with graffiti", KSAT.com, published June 13, 2024, updated June 14, 2024. Retrieved November 8, 2024.