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TITLE:
Mission San Antonio de Valero, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

CALL NUMBER:
HABS TEX,15-SANT,15-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 17  (18 x 24 in.)
Photo(s): 26   (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 14 plus cover page

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Santa Anna

NOTE:
Survey number HABS TX-318

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-56).

Building/structure dates: 1762 initial construction

Significance: Established on its present site in 1724, the Mission San Antonio de Valero is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildings are of great significance to the study of colonial Texas history providing the observer some concept of that frontier institution which helped to contribute to the development of Texas. It is also of further historic significance as a result of the role it played in the struggle for Texas independence in 1836.

SUBJECTS:
TEXAS--Bexar County--San Antonio

OTHER TITLE:
The Alamo
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.tx0035

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 GENERAL VIEW FROM WEST.
2. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 GENERAL VIEW, WEST ELEVATION.
3. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 GENERAL VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST.
4. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 DETAIL NORTHWEST ELEVATION (FRONT).
5. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 WEST ELEVATION (FRONT).
6. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 DETAIL OF ENTRANCE (WEST ELEVATION).
7. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 INSIDE OF OLD COURTYARD (LOOKING WEST).
8. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 SOUTH WALL OF OLD COURTYARD (LOOKING NORTHEAST).
9. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 VIEW INSIDE OLD COURT (LOOKING SOUTH).
10. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 VIEW INSIDE OLD COURTYARD (LOOKING SOUTHWEST).
11. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 17, 1936 SOUTHEAST ELEVATION (SOUTH SIDE AND EAST REAR).
12. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 VIEW IN OLD COURT FROM NORTHWEST.
13. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 SOUTH ELEVATION (LOOKING NORTH IN NEW COURTYARD).
14. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 9, 1936 SOUTH ELEVATION (LOOKING NORTH IN NEW COURTYARD).
15. Historic American Buildings Survey, Arthur W. Stewart, Photographer April 8, 1936 ARCADE NEW COURTYARD (LOOKING NORTH).
16. Historic American Buildings Survey, W. Eugene George Jr., Photographer July, 1961 WEST ELEVATION.
17. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 FRONT (WEST) FACADE.
18. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 DETAIL OF FRONT FACADE (FROM NORTHWEST).
19. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 CLOSE-UP OF MAIN ENTRANCE.
20. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 NAVE, LOOKING EAST.
21. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 BAPTISTRY CEILING.
22. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 CONFESSIONAL CEILING.
23. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 SACRISTY VAULTING.
24. Historic American Buildings Survey, Jack Boucher, Photographer October, 1961 NAVE, LOOKING WEST (SHOWING ORIGINAL VERAMENDI HOUSE DOORS AT LEFT).
25. Historic American Buildings Survey, W. Eugene George, Jr., Photographer July, 1961 DETAIL OF KEYSTONE (WEST FACADE).
26. Historic American Buildings Survey, W. Eugene George, Jr., Photographer July, 1961 DETAIL OF TYMPANUM.

CONTROL #:
TX0035

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