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It was a Native American settlement and then a collection of primitive brush huts, called jacales, for the Spanish soldiers (and their Indian wives and children) stationed nearby at the Mission San Antonio de Valero (an active mission from about 1718 to 1793, now better known as the Alamo). [2]
The city of Kansas City’s leaf and brush collection services are split into three regions, and start Monday, Oct. 21, for residents who live in the south region. The city will come around to ...
The museum's lobby. 1930s: The Witte Museum's support of archeological research in the canyons of Big Bend and the Lower Pecos area resulted in important research findings and a growing collection of artifacts and led to the building of new galleries to house them, as well as a Reptile Garden, which was the vision of founder Ellen Schultz Quillin. [9]
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The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in the U.S. state of Texas.The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion that sits on 23 acres (9.3 ha) that are landscaped with fountains, broad lawns and a Japanese-inspired garden ...
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio.The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande, and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico.
As Antonio Martins’s San Francisco bathroom proves, an all-white space doesn’t have to be boring. Between the subway-tiled shower, Imperial Marble trim, and Phillip Jeffries wallpaper, this ...
The collection became known as the Buckhorn Hall of Horns. A collection of firearms and a mirrored bar were added to the collection of horns. [6] The saloon was reputed to be frequented by Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders during the time period that the Rough Riders were deployed to San Antonio. [7]