National Historic Registration
Historical and architectural documentation prepared as part of the building’s formal preservation record.
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San Antonio • 1927
The Casino
Club Building
Preserving the photographs, documents, and history of a distinctive San Antonio landmark.
A digital collection of original records and historical materials
Original brochure • 1927 • 9 pages
Featured artifact
The Original 1927 Casino Club Brochure
Published during the building’s earliest years, this remarkable brochure offers a glimpse inside the San Antonio Casino Club—its architecture, rooms, amenities, and place in the civic life of the city.
More than a promotional booklet, it is a surviving portrait of the building as its founders wanted San Antonio to see it.
A building captured in its records
Built for a new era of San Antonio civic life
A surviving 1926 mortgage application describes a six-story building with a full basement, reinforced concrete and steel construction, brick exterior walls, club rooms, offices, dormitories, a ballroom, café, restaurant, kitchen, barber shop, and service spaces.
Today, financial papers, receipts, inventories, photographs, and promotional materials preserve details that might otherwise have disappeared.
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Explore the surviving record
These documents reveal the Casino Club Building not only as a landmark, but as a real place being financed, constructed, equipped, and occupied.
1926 Loan Application
The mortgage application records the proposed building, construction, cost, uses, architect, and financing.
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1927 Fire-Escape Receipt
A Southern Steel Company receipt acknowledging payment for fire-escape equipment installed on the building.
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Room Inventory, Part I
A room-by-room inventory documenting furniture, equipment, and property within the Casino Club.
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A San Antonio landmark, preserved in photographs
Explore surviving views of the Casino Club Building and the architectural details that give it its distinctive place in the city’s history.
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History survives in paper
Historic buildings are more than their walls and façades. Their stories also survive in plans, applications, receipts, photographs, brochures, inventories, and the ordinary records left by the people who built and used them.
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