Old Alamo National Bank Bldg, 1899
Alamo National Bank, chartered in 1891, constructed this elaborate Renaissance Revival style building across Commerce Street. In an impressive engineering feat, construction workers raised the building with jacks onto rollers and moved it south twenty feet when Commerce Street was widened in 1913-1915. Banking operations never ceased throughout the process. The upper three stories were added in 1916 after the move.
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Moving the Alamo National Bank, 069-8418, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
11.0192, San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation Library
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Old Alamo National Bank
Bldg, 1899
207 N Presa St
San Antonio, TX 78205
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