changing the Alamo chapel facade or other restorations. That’s because they rebuilt the former site, which stretched across today’s streets and into buildings, in the digital world.

It is small, but the weathered limestone facade is still one of the most ... 210-225-1391 or go to www.thealamo.org. Outside the chapel is the city-owned Alamo Plaza (it was initially within ...

Samuel Maverick’s sons erected the Crockett Building in 1882, one year before the state purchased the Alamo Chapel ... limestone walls and decorative facade elements. Restored in the 1980s ...

The Alamo Chapel, a Spanish mission-era structure, sits in the main plaza of San Antonio, Texas. A plan to restore and rethink it for visitors has been highly controversial. “What happened at ...

Though not as widely discussed as other mysteries of the Alamo, many unanswered questions ... and St. Dominic that occupied the niches of the chapel,” Hoyt wrote. Drawings and paintings of ...

HOUSTON (AP) - A study by a team of Texas A&M-led architecture researchers employing lasers and digital images shows the iconic west facade of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio is slowly eroding.

In July a new engineer’s report identified rainwater seepage into the chapel as the primary threat ... two hologram prints of the iconic facade of the Alamo. As the viewer approached, the ...

The Roman Catholic Church sold the Alamo chapel site to the state in 1883, but other portions remained in private hands. The ...

The famous western facade will be visible, but the Alamo Church interior will be off-limits to visitors. The Alamo is in the midst of a $550 preservation project, which includes restoring the ...

They try on coonskin hats in the gift shop and pose for photos in front of the chapel’s iconic white limestone facade. The Battle of the Alamo, we’re told, is more or less a simple story ...

A little over 50 years after the siege of the Alamo, the old chapel with that famous façade had become a crumbling grocery store. In 1908, a group of women in the newly formed Daughters of the ...