The structure will provide a layout in keeping with historical records and is one part of the overall Alamo Plaza redevelopment plan.
A rendering shows an interpretive mission gate and lunette in Alamo Plaza. The new structures were approved for construction by the Historic and Design Review Commission on Wednesday.The Historic and Design Review Commission on Wednesday gave its approval for the Alamo Trust to build an interpretive mission gate and lunette in Alamo Plaza, structures that will significantly alter the surroundings of the historic mission and battleground site.
The structure will provide an exhibit of items and a layout in keeping with historical records from 1849 to 1871 and is one part of theCommissioners approved issuing a certificate of appropriateness for construction of the gate and lunette but not until after hearing from several citizens concerned about the design and placement of the structure, with one woman calling the design “hideous.”
A rendering shows an interpretive mission gate and lunette in Alamo Plaza. The structures will act as an exhibit of items.Cindy Gaskill, a resident of the Houston-area town of Magnolia, took issue with the plan as well, saying it would inhibit the use of Alamo Plaza as an open space per deed restrictions and that the proposed design is “ugly.”
Gallagher explained to the panel that the plan and program for the mission gate have been reviewed with historians and archaeologists “to define the appropriate locations for a representation of the mission gate and the temporary lunette installation.”
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