Aurora Apartment Hotel, Historic high-rise apartment hotel in Tobin Hill, San Antonio, US
Aurora Apartment Hotel is a twelve-story building in Tobin Hill, San Antonio, with a Neo-Gothic exterior. It holds 105 apartment units, occupied almost exclusively by elderly and mentally and physically disabled residents. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 2021.
The building opened in 1930 as a luxury hotel that attracted Hollywood personalities and prominent visitors before eventually being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It later transitioned to become an affordable housing complex serving long-term residents.
The Aurora opened on August 24, 1930, as a hotel for Hollywood figures and former First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower. Since 2007 it has been a 105-unit apartment complex, occupied almost exclusively by elderly and mentally and physically disabled residents, and it is a qualifying property for San Antonio's Section 8 housing.
The Aurora is a 105-unit apartment complex for elderly and mentally and physically disabled residents, part of San Antonio's Section 8 housing list. It is not open for public tours; visitors can view the Neo-Gothic exterior from W. Summit Avenue in Tobin Hill.
The Aurora is a qualifying property for San Antonio's Section 8 housing programme, which is why it runs at 100% occupancy with a long waiting list for new tenants. Loopy, Ltd., a real estate company, bought the building in September 2007.
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