| Marker Number |
2073 |
| Atlas Number |
5029002073 |
| Marker Title |
T. C. Frost and the Frost Bank |
| Index Entry |
|
| Address |
114 W. Commerce St. |
| City |
San Antonio |
| County |
Bexar |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
549093 |
| UTM Northing |
3255158 |
| Subject Codes |
banks, bankers, banking topics; Civil War; Business topics, general; banks, bankers, banking topics |
| Marker Year |
1978 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
114 W. Commerce St., San Antonio |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
|
| Marker Size |
27" x 42" |
| Marker Text |
Thomas Claiborne Frost (1833-1903) came to Texas from Alabama in 1855 to teach at Austin College, Huntsville. Admitted to the bar in 1856, he served as a Texas Ranger before setting up a law practice in Comanche County. He was a delegate to the Seccession Convention in 1861 and an officer in the Confederate Army. For a time after 1865, he ran freight business between San Antonio nd the Port of Indianola. In 1868 Frost entered a partnership with his brother John and M.L. Fitch in a mercantile company located at this site. In 1874 T.C. Frost became the sole owner of the operation, to which he added a warehousing and wool commission business. Because Frost was a trusted merchant with a strong safe, he served as banker for the conveince of his customers. Frost gradually phased out his mercantile and wool interests and developed the service into a general banking business. The bank acquired a national charter in 1899. Thornton, Wright and Co., formerly Traders National Bank, and Lockwood National Bank merged with Frost. In 1922 Frost National Bank erected this 12-story building on the original store site. The bank moved to larger facilities on West Houston Street in 1973. |
