Office of Historic Preservation

City staff did not recommend a finding of historic significance, but instead offered proposals including funding from the property owner toward an exhibit at Museo del Westside. An investment company managed by Douglas Miller of the Bill Miller Bar-B-Q currently owns the property. The company had plans to demolish the structure, before it caught fire in February, and build a residential high-rise.

The Living Heritage Trades Academy teaches a new generation about preserving San Antonio’s historic character.

A vacant property that history advocates have been fighting to save caught fire late Wednesday night in San Antonio. 503 Urban Loop — a former brothel and later orphanage — found itself at the center of local controversy last summer after its owners filed a request to demolish the building.

Projection technology will "paint" the façade of Mission San José with colorful frescoes to look like it did 300 years ago.

Sometime this summer, Fannie Porter's brothel — where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hid out — lost its historic designation.