307 North Medina Street

San Antonio, Texas. Hoffmann-Hayman consolidated plant location through 1917 and into the early 1920s. The address became prominent as the “fireproof building” where the firm consolidated operations after the January 1917 Morrison Coffee acquisition — the Announcement (“We will continue their business at their old stand for about thirty days, when we will remove same to the fireproof building we now occupy at 307 N. Medina St.”) names it explicitly as the receiving site for the Morrison plant.

Documented attestations on this site:

• 28 January 1917 — Morrison-acquisition Announcement names 307 N. Medina as the H&H consolidated plant.
• 19 August 1917 — Wholesale roster footer: “307 North Medina St. San Antonio, Texas.”
• 19 October 1917 — Second Liberty Loan sponsor page cell: same address.
• 1918 (copyright applied March, LoC deposit May) — Greater San Antonio: City of Destiny business-directory section: “Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co., 307 N. Medina St., Wholesale Coffee” (OCR renders “Wholesale” as “Whnlesale”) — an independent booster-press directory attestation, filling the gap between the Oct 1917 and Dec 1922 primary sources.
• 10 December 1922 — San Antonio Light “Little Journeys” feature: PDF-verified article body reads “307 North Medina street” (the OCR rendering “McMullin” is a misread of “Medina”) — the address persisted through at least late 1922.

Pre-1932 transition. The companies hub lists Burnett Street (331 Burnett) as the mid-period 1923–1932 address, suggesting H&H moved from 307 N. Medina to 331 Burnett around 1923 — but the 22 December 1922 “Little Journeys” attestation places 307 N. Medina still in service that month, narrowing the move to late 1922 / early 1923.

Open questions

• Exact 1922–1923 move date from 307 N. Medina to 331 Burnett
• Building’s pre-H&H history — what was at 307 N. Medina before 1917?
• Building’s post-H&H history (still standing in 2026? a different occupant?)
• Was 307 N. Medina the same building that Morrison Coffee had operated from, or a separate H&H facility that absorbed Morrison’s stock and brands?

District context (2026-07-21), partial: N. Medina Street runs along the eastern edge of the City of San Antonio’s Cattleman Square Historic District (designated 1985; bounded roughly by W. Houston, N. Frio, N. Medina, and W. Martin/Salinas, hard against the Union Pacific Railroad corridor) — a rail-adjacent early-20th-century warehouse district, consistent with 307 N. Medina’s use as a wholesale coffee plant needing rail siding access. This narrows where the building sat but did not resolve what it was before/after H&H — general web search (Bexar Central Appraisal District parcel lookup, City of San Antonio historic-landmarks list) returned no address-level hit for 307 N. Medina specifically; both are JS-driven portals not reachable by a plain fetch. How to resolve: Bexar Appraisal District (bcad.org) or the Sanborn fire insurance maps (resources/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps.md) via direct human lookup; City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation for pre/post-H&H occupant history.

See also

People

• Alfred Giles

Places

• 1223 West Commerce Street — earlier address
• 331 Burnett Street — next H&H address (1923–1932)
• 601 Delaware Street Plant
• Spahn Bakery

Companies

• Aviation Coffee Company
• Hoffmann-Hayman Company
• International-Great Northern Railroad (I. & G. N.)
• Morrison Coffee Company — acquired and consolidated at this address in 1917