Alamo Plaza is History, Too

With the redevelopment the Alamo and its surrounding plaza at the center of recent public debate, I invited Lewis Fisher, one of the city’s leading historians, to share details about the iconic site’s past and ownership. Fisher is the author of Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, a book dedicated to tales of the city’s strength in preserving its past. When the State of Texas bought the Alamo church from the Catholic Church in 1883, it became the first landmark to be purchased with the purpose of historic preservation.