Author: Lewis F. FisherPublisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vintage postcard portrait panoramas of San Antonio that illustrate a city's transition into modern times
San Antonio's Historic Plazas, Parks and River Walk
Author: Lewis F. FisherPublisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781595346957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vintage postcard portrait panoramas of San Antonio that illustrate a city's transition into modern times
Downtown San Antonio
Author: Joan Marston KortePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738584916
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Archvial photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of San Antonio, Texas.
River Walk
Author: Lewis F. FisherPublisher: Maverick Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Illustrated photographs and narratives describe the history, restoration, and continued development of San Antonio's River Walk.
Historic Photos of San Antonio
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1618586793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. The actual founding of the city took place in 1718 by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares. The ?River City? is famous for the Alamo and the River Walk, the two most visited tourists attractions in the entire state of Texas, along with Sea World, Six Flags Texas Fiesta and a very strong military concentration. This book follows life, government, events and people important to San Antonio history and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Antonio!
Saving San Antonio
Author: Lewis F. FisherPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 159534781X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.
San Antonio's Historic Hotels
Author: David L. Peché Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467102474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Recognized as the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi, the Menger Hotel opened its doors in 1859. Business-minded men and women followed suit, establishing inns, lodges, motels, and hotels for tourists, businessmen, and passers-through that offered a wide range of amenities. The Crockett Hotel has overlooked the Alamo since 1909. The St. Anthony Hotel was the first luxury hotel in the state of Texas and often hosted celebrities, politicians, and other elite society. The Gunter Hotel was called the "first million-dollar hotel" in Texas by the Austin American Statesman and was deemed to have the "largest hotel lobby in the South" by the San Antonio Light and Gazette. The Fairmount Hotel drew acclaim after being moved five blocks in April 1985, when it was honored with an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "heaviest hotel ever moved." The evolution of San Antonio from military post and Texas's oldest municipality to the fastest-growing large US city, told through the lens of the city's hotels, is filled with unique historical perspective.
Our San Antonio
Author: Susanna Nawrocki, Mark Langford, Gerald Lair, Claude StanushPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610604802
Category : San Antonio (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Brackenridge
Author: Lewis F. FisherPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595349677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum. The land that Brackenridge Park occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, has been reinvented many times over. People have gathered there since prehistoric times. Following the city’s founding in 1718, the land was used to channel river water into town via a system of acequias; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack. The park continues to be a site of national acclaim even while major sections have fallen into disrepair. The more than 400 acres that constitute San Antonio’s flagship urban park are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl. Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city’s foremost gathering places.
San Antonio
Author: Nancy Haston FosterPublisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1461709369
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This easy-to-use guide gives you the history, highlights, and hot spots of the nation's eighth largest city. You get extensive listings of historical places, annual events, restaurants, accomodations, shopping areas, and more.
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