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The Alamo Plaza Historic District is an historic district of downtown San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [ 1 ] It includes the Alamo , which is a separately listed Registered Historic Place and a U.S. National Historic Landmark .
Alamo Plaza Courts in Waco, Texas (1939) The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States, [1] [2] founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas, in 1929. By 1955, there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern U.S., most controlled by a loosely knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating ...
Alamo National Bank Building: May 10, 2006 : 105 S. St. Mary's St. San Antonio: Part of San Antonio Downtown and River Walk Historic District 4: Alamo Plaza Historic District: Alamo Plaza Historic District
The Menger Hotel is an historic hotel located in downtown San Antonio, Texas, US, on the site of the Battle of the Alamo. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as a contributing building in the Alamo Plaza Historic District. [1]
The Alamo was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960, and was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1961. [80] It was an inaugural listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 and is a contributing property to the Alamo Plaza Historic District, which was designated in 1977.
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse is located in the Alamo Plaza Historic District. [2] In 2000, the building was individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It was renamed the Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse in 2004 to honor Judge Hipolito Frank Garcia (1925–2002). [3]
One of the newest additions to the San Antonio Historic Districts is Knob Hill thanks to the efforts of the late Dora Tovar and is located in the Southeast part of the city and a mile and a half from Alamo Plaza. It is bordered by Iowa Street to the north, Nelson Street to the south, and South Palmetto and New Braunfels Avenues to the west and ...
The Alamodome is a 64,000-seat domed indoor multi-purpose stadium in San Antonio, Texas.It is located on the southeastern fringe of downtown San Antonio.The facility opened on May 15, 1993, having been constructed at a cost of $186 million.