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Terrazas House (in ruins) - Tejeda Rd.

The site was initially intriguing as the masonry technique of the stone ruins harken to earlier colonial “found stone” construction and is composed almost entirely of irregular fragments of sandstone.

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19th Century Vernacular, Bexar County, Colonial Land Grant, found stone, Mexican Architecture, Ruins

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Marnoch Homestead

The Scottish surgeon Dr. Fredrick Marnoch (1802-1870) purchased more than 1500 acres at this site in the autumn of 1858....