Alamo Plaza Historic District
San Antonio’s iconic Alamo Plaza is located at the center of the city and includes the Alamo Chapel and complex, open/public use space formerly part of the courtyard of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), and the commercial resources that developed around the plaza during the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
The plaza’s history and the development of its built environment is in many ways reflective of the evolution of San Antonio itself as it transformed from a religious area associated with a Spanish mission during the eighteenth century to a military headquarters during the early nineteenth century and then finally to an area dedicated to transportation, commerce, and recreation during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.