River Walk ‘surprise’ example of San Antonio recycling stone from demolished downtown buildings

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River Walk ‘surprise’ example of San Antonio recycling stone from demolished downtown buildings
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Removal of freeze-damaged ivy reveals limestone block with A. Giles carved on it. Alfred...

The city’s first high school, built in 1882, was demolished to make room for the new Main Avenue High School . Some of its stones were reused in 1917 in walls along the San Antonio River.I’d like to know more about this River Walk surprise, . River Walk Operations Superintendent Joseph Cruz advised me that the ivy growing on the River Walk’s east bank wall suffered substantially in hard freeze; therefore, much of the ivy was removed in January.

Among those still standing in San Antonio are the Steves Homestead and Carl Wilhelm August Groos House in the King William Historic District, the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, the 1909 addition to the Menger Hotel, the Pershing House at Fort Sam and the Sullivan Carriage House at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.

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