Wesley Peacock House

The school in this house trained more than boys. From 1920 to 1926 the United States Veterans Bureau leased the plant, and some 5,000 former servicemen were rehabilitated and given vocational training here. In 1933 the academy was rechartered as a nonprofit corporation, a long ambition of its founder, and during World War II it housed a training and research unit of the Texas State Guard. Cadets held dress parades on spring Sunday afternoons with officers from the local bases reviewing. Wesley Peacock himself, a Georgia native, wrote books and articles on dreams and psychoanalysis.

What the plaque says

Wesley Peacock House Erected as a two-story home in 1890, this structure was the original building of Peacock School for boys, founded in 1894 by Wesley Peacock (1865-1941). Military training was initiated in 1900. Chartered in 1904, it became a distinguished school with High Academic standards. Peacock's two sons, Wesley, Jr., and Donald, took charge in 1926 of the Peacock Military Academy. A fire in 1931 on the second floor of the house prompted major remodeling. After educating 15,000 students, the 20-acre facility was deede in 1973 to the Salvation Army to be known as "Peacock Center." (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spanish Governor's Palace — 3.2 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 3.2 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 3.3 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.
• San Antonio River Walk — 3.7 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.

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