Frost, T.C., and the Frost Bank

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.

Frost, T.C., and the Frost Bank is a historical marker in San Antonio, Bexar County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 239 historical markers documented in Bexar County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 542 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.4248, -98.4939 near San Antonio. The nearest cataloged historic site is Surrender of Federal Forces by General David E. Twiggs (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Woll Invasion, San Fernando Cathedral, and Church of Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria y Guadalupe.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5029002073. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.