THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT
The ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
VOL. CXXIV
NUMBER 2433 The OLD SPANISH MISSIONS in and ABOUT
SAN ANTONIO
BY F. S. LAURENCE*
O
F the impressions carried home from an extensive Southwestern tour of the United States last Spring there stands out the memory of two places visited which throw over the visitor the spell of a tradition as nearly approximating the atmosphere of an ancient past as any locality in the United States can give. One is New Orleans, Louisiana, and the other is San Antonio, Texas.
* Executive Secretary, National Terra Cotta Society
In San Antonio one begins to get this impression of an historic past from the first casual stroll about the streets in which chance will bring one, now and then, unexpectedly face to face with some interesting example of old Spanish settlement architecture, but the impression is not to be felt in its full force until, leaving behind the bustling streets of this highly progressive and enormously widespread modern city, the old buildings of the early Spanish Missions with their surroundings of
(Copyright, 1923, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)
GENERAL VIEW FROM THE SOUTHWEST OF THE MISSION SAN JOSE DE AGUAYO
The ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
VOL. CXXIV
NUMBER 2433 The OLD SPANISH MISSIONS in and ABOUT
SAN ANTONIO
BY F. S. LAURENCE*
O
F the impressions carried home from an extensive Southwestern tour of the United States last Spring there stands out the memory of two places visited which throw over the visitor the spell of a tradition as nearly approximating the atmosphere of an ancient past as any locality in the United States can give. One is New Orleans, Louisiana, and the other is San Antonio, Texas.
* Executive Secretary, National Terra Cotta Society
In San Antonio one begins to get this impression of an historic past from the first casual stroll about the streets in which chance will bring one, now and then, unexpectedly face to face with some interesting example of old Spanish settlement architecture, but the impression is not to be felt in its full force until, leaving behind the bustling streets of this highly progressive and enormously widespread modern city, the old buildings of the early Spanish Missions with their surroundings of
(Copyright, 1923, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)
GENERAL VIEW FROM THE SOUTHWEST OF THE MISSION SAN JOSE DE AGUAYO