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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]
The Midtown San Antonio neighborhood is within walking distance of: Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio Botanical Gardens, DoSeum Children's Museum, Japanese Tea Garden, San Antonio Zoo, Brackenridge Park, the Witte Museum, Lions Field Park and the Brackenridge Golf Course.
Museo Alameda, San Antonio, closed in 2012, [258] space now the Educational & Cultural Arts Center for Texas A&M San Antonio [259] Museum of Aerospace Medicine , San Antonio, closed in 2011 [ 260 ] USAF Security Forces Museum, San Antonio, history of the U.S. Air Force Security Forces, closed in 2014 and being consolidated with the USAF Airman ...
The San Antonio Zoo Eagle train carries visitors throughout Brackenridge Park. Attractions within the park include the San Antonio Zoo, the Witte Museum, the Japanese Tea Gardens, the Sunken Garden Theater, the Tuesday Musical Club, First Tee of San Antonio and the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge San Antonio Zoo Eagle train ride, which first opened in 1956. [3]
Typical Monte Vista Historic District street sign. Bounded by Hildebrand Avenue to the north, Broadway to the east, I-10 to the west and I-35 to the south, Eastside of San Antonio's Historic District features an assortment of neighborhoods ranging from the working class Beacon Hill to the up-and-coming Five Points to the established upper middle class Monte Vista.
Appointed the first schoolmaster of San Antonio in 2025, he designated as the first school a house acquired by his father, on Military Plaza. This house was carefully reconstructed in 1943 and moved to the grounds of the Witte Museum, where it is still used for educational purposes. In 1805, Ruiz became a member of the San Antonio City Council.
Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near Bastrop, Texas, to a family of Mexican American tenant farmers. [3] His father, Porfirio G. Salinas, and his mother, Clara G. Chavez Salinas, left the farm for San Antonio when Porfirio was a child. [4]
He was a man of compassion as well as style, offering generous support to his adopted city when San Antonio suffered a devastating flood in 1921 and to the Witte Museum when it suffered a severe financial crisis in 1933. [16] Dawson-Watson raised his children in San Antonio and remained a resident until his death in 1939. [17]