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Heiner Huth Restored
Before restoration
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The Heiner-Huth House
This small, caliche block house is typical of the residences built by European immigrants when they first settled in Texas. The addition of a porch to the European house marks the immigrants adaptation to the hotter climate of their new home.
The house form with its gabled roof and a lower sloped roof across the rear is typical of numerous houses found in Castroville, Texas, as well as San Antonio. This small house is the sole reminder of its San Antonio immigrant neighborhood.
The metal roofing material and the slope of the gabled roof with a lower slope continuing across a room usually added at the rear are typical of the many historic houses still found in the Castroville area today. The addition of a front porch marked the regional adaptation of immigrant traditions to the hotter climate of their new home. This small house is the sole reminder of many others which housed the early European settlers of this San Antonio neighborhood.
The scope of this project included both interior and exterior work. The front porch was re-opened and restored. At the interior, the wood floor framing and flooring were replaced. A new standing seam metal roof was installed. All new work replicated the existing wherever physical evidence remained to be replicated. New fencing, landscaping and sidewalks were installed at the perimeter of the property
San Antonio, Texas
Client: Gal-Tex Hotel Corporation
Completed: 2003
Construction budget: $102,800.00
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