National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Freeman, Martha Doty
Publisher: name: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Leon Springs Military Reservation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83085/leon-springs-military-reservation
subject: Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82959/camp-bullis-cantonment-historic-district
subject: Camp Bullis Military Reservation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82946/camp-bullis-military-reservation
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Camp Bullis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82533/camp-bullis
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: renovation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/150032/renovation
subject: Building 602a
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146375/building-602a
subject: Building 648
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146439/building-648
subject: Building 646
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146437/building-646
subject: Building 626
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146422/building-626
subject: Building 647
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146438/building-647
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: The Camp Bullis Cantonment Historic District forms the oldest and most complete concentration of administrative, residential, recreational, service, warehouse, and training properties at Camp Bullis. The district is located in the southern portion of the camp and contains 135 buildings, structures, objects, and sites, of which 82 are Contributing and 53 are Noncontributing elements. The historic resources of the District comprise a complex of properties constructed between 1917 and 1945 to provide residential, training, work, and recreational facilities for officers and men attached to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. These resources are in good condition and retain a high degree of integrity of location, setting, feeling, design, workmanship, materials, and association. Ten property types and two architectural styles are found within the district. These are Housing, Administration Buildings, Service/Support Facilities, Recreation and Entertainment Facilities, Shops, Warehouses, Training Devices, Utilities and Infrastructure, Landscape Features, and Facility Plans. Most of the buildings are simple but well-designed and executed one-story, wood-frame, or stone examples of military architecture of the 1930s and 1940s; a few houses are reflective of modified Bungalow design. Infrastructure and landscape features, including roadways, stone walls and culverts, and bridges complement the buildings. These elements are organized around a facility plan that reflects a distinctive and innovative type of military planning and creates a sense of time and place that distinguishes the cantonment area.