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what an Alamo Plaza Advisory Committee recommended that master planners pursue. To make way for that 1836 layout, buildings from just north of Houston Street and south to Crockett Street would ...
We imagine a single Alamo entity that is as true as possible to that original footprint, as it looked when it was defended on Sunday, March 6, 1836, the day the one-time mission-turned-fortress fell.
In this preliminary master plan, there is acknowledgment of the 1836 battle as the launching pad for telling the Alamo story. Our fear, however, is that in an attempt to have the Alamo be all ...
Asignificant new book about the Alamo is almost a pop-up history of Texas's most historic site. The Illustrated Alamo 1836: A Photographic Journey by Mark Lemon is a full-color coffee-table book ...
The free, public event was a "solemn reverence to honor the Alamo defenders and their sacrifice," organizers said. The events leading up to the morning hour of the 1836 battle were covered through ...
SAN ANTONIO - Only 13 genuine copies of the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence are known to exist, and one of them is coming to the Alamo as a permanent gift of the descendants of one of the ...
“This year we will hold more programming than ever before to commemorate the 1836 siege and battle,” Alamo CEO Douglass McDonald said in the press release. “There is no better time to visit ...
The “Dawn at the Alamo” event at Alamo Plaza marked the 188th anniversary of the pivotal 1836 battle. The ceremony was presented in partnership with the San Antonio Living History Association ...
AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - One the most important documents in Texas history is closer to going on display in a new permanent home. Tuesday night, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed ...