The Alamo Defenders Monument, Alamo Stadium statues and El Conquistador Hotel were envisioned — but never brought to life.
You can’t see them, but they’re there — at least, they’re in seldom-seen documents. They’re the ghost structures that were imagined but never built — or at least not in the way they were planned. And they are haunted by the spirits of dissent, impracticality and colonialism. For spooky season, here are a few such specters of the San Antonio streetscape.
Hertzberg hauntings marked by voices, steps, clanking keys Without the will or money for any of these schemes, Alamo Plaza waited through World War I, a 1920s construction boom for business buildings and the worst of the Great Depression before the Alamo monument was realized in 1940 as the Cenotaph , built with funds for the Texas Centennial, celebrated in 1936. Alamo Stadium statues For years, there was factional squabbling over San Antonio’s first high school stadium.
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