The Brackenridge Park Rehabilitation Project
Author : Brett Alan Houk
Publisher :
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Brett Alan Houk
Publisher :
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Brett Alan Houk
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Brett Alan Houk
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1595349677
Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state’s first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum. The land that Brackenridge Park occupies, near the San Antonio River headwaters, has been reinvented many times over. People have gathered there since prehistoric times. Following the city’s founding in 1718, the land was used to channel river water into town via a system of acequias; its limestone cliffs were quarried for building materials; and it was the site of a Civil War tannery, headquarters for two military camps, a plant nursery, and a racetrack. The park continues to be a site of national acclaim even while major sections have fallen into disrepair. The more than 400 acres that constitute San Antonio’s flagship urban park are made up of half a dozen parcels stitched together over time to create an uncommon varied landscape. Uniquely San Antonian, Brackenridge is full of romantic wooded walks and whimsical public spaces drawing tourists, locals, wildlife, and waterfowl. Extensively researched and illustrated with some two hundred archival photographs and vintage postcards, Brackenridge: San Antonio’s Acclaimed Urban Park is the first comprehensive look at the fascinating story of this unique park and how its diverse layers evolved to create one of the city’s foremost gathering places.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Federal aid to outdoor recreation
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Author : Patsy Pittman Light
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1585446106
Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez’s works have been included on the National Register of Historic Places. Patsy Pittman Light has spent a decade documenting the trabajo rústico (“rustic work”) of Rodríguez, along with its antecedents in Europe and Mexico, and the subsequent work of those Rodríguez trained in San Antonio. Rodríguez’s unique and unusual art will fascinate those new to it and delight those to whom it is familiar. San Antonio sites such as the bus stop on Broadway, the faux bois bridge in Brackenridge Park, and the “rocks” on the Miraflores Gate at the San Antonio Museum of Art, along with the Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock and Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, are just a few of the locations covered in this volume celebrating the life and work of a Latino artisan. Students and devotees of Texas and Southwestern art will welcome this book and its long-overdue appreciation of this artist. Additionally, this book will commend itself to those interested in Latino studies, art history, and folklore.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Joey O'Keefe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Tacoma (Wash.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Open spaces
ISBN :
Author : Mitchell Wendell
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Recreation areas
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