Miraflores Park, or simply Miraflores, is the creation of Dr. Aureliano Urrutia, a surgeon who came to San Antonio in 1914 as an exile during a time of political upheaval in Mexico.
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“It’s a mashup. This is a mashup of all of these worlds,” said John Phillip Santos, professor of Borderland Studies and Creative Non-fiction at the UTSA School of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences. “Miraflores used to be about two-thirds larger than it is right now. It used to stretch all the way to Broadway,” said Chris Maitre, CEO of theThe park was also connected by a walking path to Urrutia’s home at the entrance of Mahncke Park, which has since been torn down.Santos, who snuck into the park as a teenager and whose grandmother was a patient of Urrutia’s, said Miraflores has always held a certain fascination.
Miraflores once had a pool and flourishing plants and trees, representing a more garden-like feel than exists today. It was the site of large parties and civic engagements. The pool has been filled in, and subsequent owners installed barbeque pits and a covered patio at the back of the property to host company functions.
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