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Explore the rich Hotel Emma History and the legacy of Emma Koehler at our Historic Hotel in San Antonio, a blend of luxury and heritage.
Hotel Emma, once a 19th-century brewhouse, [1] is a 146-room boutique hotel in the historic Pearl District [2] of San Antonio, Texas, United States. It has a library, bar, club room, restaurant and grocer. Hotel Emma is named after Emma Koehler, wife of Pearl President Otto Koehler.
The hotel building was originally Pearl’s Brewhouse, built in 1894 and a San Antonio landmark ever since. The building was designed by Chicago architect August Maritzen in the Second Empire style. Maritzen specialized in breweries, designing more than eighty in the US, Canada and South Africa.
Hotel Emma is comprised of six buildings — five dating to 1894 and one rebuilt cellar. The original buildings were designed by Chicago architect August Maritzen in Second...
Before the Pearl Brewery took center stage as the San Antonio destination it is today, the spot was merely background noise to a story about love, murder and three women named Emma. First, and most...
During renovation, the construction crews called it “the cathedral,” an appropriately reverent term for the towering temple of Gilded Age architectural excess, which was the Brewhouse and is Hotel Emma. Designed by August Maritzen in 1894, the Brewhouse was San Antonio’s tallest building for a while.
It’s filled with stores, restaurants and the world-renowned Hotel Emma. The hotel is named after Emma Koehler, who ran the brewery for nearly 20 years. But, not many people know the story...
The woman behind the Hotel Emma ran a prominent brewery in South Texas for nearly two decades through some of the harshest times of the 20th century. Emma Koehler and her husband, Otto, a German immigrant, came to San Antonio in 1884.
A culinary and cultural scene has sprung up in the last decade – thanks to a year-round farmers’ market and countless bars, shops and restaurants – spearheading the revitalisation of Midtown and northern Downtown San Antonio. The hotel is just one more reason to visit.
“Established in 1881 as the J.B. Behloradsky Brewery, the company was acquired in 1883 by the San Antonio Brewing Association, and by 1916 it was the largest brewery in Texas. Pearl was the only San Antonio brewery to survive Prohibition thanks primarily to Emma Koehler.”