L. B. Clegg House
N 29° 26.644 W 098° 29.722
14R E 548939 N 3257292
San Antonio Printing company magnate of early 1900s hired a noted architect to build a Spanish Colonial Revival home that set a trend in building design in San Antonio, TX for years to come. The house still stands.
Waymark Code: WM9AC7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2010
Views: 10
The L. B. Clegg House is located at 123 W. Park Ave., San Antonio, TX 78212, where W. Park intersects into Howard. The house is private property that is now surrounded by San Antonio College.
The house is stucco with a red tile roof and a courtyard, designed in a Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style that later caught on in the designs of other well-know buildings built later in the city.
L. B. Clegg sold the house in 1925 to Roy M. Beitel, who made renovations before losing the house due to financial failure in the 1929 stockmarket crash. It was used as a small hospital for a few years afterwards until Josephine Henning bought it. Henning ran a catering service from the house and eventually divided the house into five apartments.
Currently the house is still owned by a member of Henning's family, not the city or the college. It appears the actual owners do not live at the residence nor take active care of this historic home. The courtyard is overgrown, the stucco is cracked, and the window sills are rotting. Having a Texas Historic status does not preserve the home, it just lets people know that at one time in its past, this was a noteworthy habitat.
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