DEPARTMENT: Office of Historic Preservation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Shanon Shea Miller
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 5
SUBJECT:
Resolution to initiate historic landmark designation for 905 Nogalitos St (parcel includes 901, 903, 905 and 911 Nogalitos, and 118, 120 and 122 Ralph) and to waive all related fees.
SUMMARY:
This resolution requests direction from City Council to move forward with historic landmark designation for the property at 905 Nogalitos. On December 6, 2017, the Historic and Design Review Commission (HDRC) voted to initiate an application for landmark designation and identified the gas station structure to be the only contributing building on site.
Staff recommends approval of the request and has identified the gas station structure to be the only contributing building on site. Staff finds that 905 Nogalitos meets six (6) of the 16 criteria for evaluation and is eligible for landmark designation based on findings f and g.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The property was originally identified through a 2012 survey initiative led by a volunteer committee of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In 2016, the gas station was one of several found to be eligible for landmark designation part of Office of Historic Preservation's historic gas stations designation effort survey but was removed from the initiative due to owner opposition. The HDRC reviewed and approved a Finding of Historic Significance for this gas station and others on August 17, 2016. This property did not move forward to City Council with the other gas stations for the Resolution on January 19, 2017.
The gas station structure at 905 Nogalitos (currently addressed as 901 and 903 Nogalitos) was built in 1935 for the Pure Oil Company. Pure Oil Distributing Company out of Delaware operated four stations in San Antonio. This Tudor revival structure had a twin on Buena Vista that was demolished some time before 1984. It is the only remaining Pure Oil Station structure still stan...
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