Photo Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2011-0216RE |
Title |
La Villita During Restoration |
Description |
La Villita during restoration. Center is Bolivar Hall's foundation. The two houses behind it are the Caxias House, left, and San Martin, right. The skyline, left to right, the Plaza Hotel, Transit Tower, City Public Service Building and Alamo National Bank Building. Black and white. |
Year Range from |
1939 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Notes |
Plaza Hotel & Transit Smith-Young Tower built by Ayres & Ayres in 1927. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White of Chicago built Alamo National Bank in 1929. On the back: La Villita During Restoration -- CA. 1939-40. Foreground: Foundation of Bolivar Hall between Nacional Street & Guadalupe Walk. San Martin & Caxias Houses in Center. Skyline Structures - Center, left to right: Granada Apts., Transit Tower, City Public Service Bldg. and Alamo National Bank Bldg. |
Collection |
Restricted Collection |
Print size |
8" x 10" |
Subjects |
Alamo National Bank (San Antonio, Tex.) Bolivar Hall (San Antonio, Tex.)Caxias House (San Antonio, Tex.) City Public Service Board Building (San Antonio, Tex.) Plaza Hotel (San Antonio, Tex.) Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Texas. La Villita (San Antonio, Tex.) San Martin House (San Antonio, Tex.) Transit Tower (San Antonio, Tex.) United States. Work Projects Administration (Tex.). La Villita Restoration Project. |
Search Terms |
Ayres & Ayres Graham, Anderson, Probst & White |
Credit line |
Photo by Hayes ProductionsInc., Courtesy of the San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Imagefile |
009\20110216RE-3.JPG |