Seen in the foreground is the San Antonio Museum of Art, housed in the former Lonestar Brewery (1895-1904), the iconography and remanence of which are still widely seen in the architecture of the building today. 

Many of these homes are ones that survived the 1900 Hurricane, identified by placards prominently and proudly displayed on their facades. The residents of Galveston have worked tirelessly to maintain their architectural heritage and the fabric of their city that makes it stand out from most any other city in the State of Texas.

View Northeast from the King William Historic District.

This neighborhood sits on land formerly cultivated by Spanish missionaries at the nearby mission San Antonio de Valero, now known as the Alamo.

When the land was plotted out and sold off for development in the 1860s, German settlers quickly filled the new neighborhood and it became known as the Kaiser Wilhelm I District. Named so after King of Prussia, and later Emperor of Germany, Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig.

The Tower of the Americas was constructed for San Antonio's 1968 worlds fair, known as Hemisfair '68. It utilizes around 4,000 cubic yards of concrete and weighs approximately 80 million pounds. Its antenna spire, above the "top house," reaches a dizzying 750 feet above San Antonio. The Tower is composed of a distinctive 45 foot wide concrete shaft with three exterior elevators.

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United States Pavilion, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, Texas

The two structures seen in the foreground constituted the US Pavilion during San Antonio's Hemisfair '68, and were made up of the exhibit hall and a multi-projector theater space (respectively, from left to right). The theme of the US Pavilion continued a trend in the theme of the rest of Hemisfair, CONFLUENCE U.S.A., portraying in a three part audio-visual story the Past, Present, and Future of the country and its people.

The Confluence Theater, as it was called, accommodated 1,200 visitors in three separate 400 seat projection rooms. The film shown here was broken into three parts "Legacy," "Harvest," and "Confluence." This film was 23 minutes long and featured unique walls that theatrically rose into the ceiling with the opening of the third act of the film. The merging the these three screens created what was then the largest curvilinear projection screen in the world.

Following the Hemisfair festivities, these structures were converted into a judicial training center and the Judge John H. Wood Jr. Federal Courthouse. Named so after Judge John H. Wood Jr., who was assassinated in San Antonio by the father of now famous actor Woody Harrelson in 1979. These structures served this purpose until the opening of San Antonio's new Federal Courthouse in April of 2022.

Colorado is a Spanish name indicating a red coloration, as is seen in the Colorado River that traverses the western reaches of the country. However, the Colorado River of Texas does and reportedly has always run clear, and without a heavy sediment load that results in the coloration of most rivers. This seemingly erroneous naming, according to the Texas Almanac, originates in a mix-up between the Brazos and the Colorado Rivers. The full name of the Brazos not known by many Texans is "Los Brazos de Dios," meaning The Arm of God.

This Warren Deck Truss was constructed by The American Bridge Company of New York, New York in 1926 and stretches over 2,000 feet across the Ohio River where it forms the border between the US States of Ohio and West Virginia. This portion of the State of West Virginia is only 64 miles long, and at its thinnest point only 4 miles across. It originated from a border dispute Virginia had with Pennsylvania which was resolved in the 1780's.

Built in the early 30's at a cost of $150 Million Dollars, the Hoover dam was the largest concrete structure in the world at its completion and required the use of many new and unproven techniques in construction. The Bureau of Land Reclamation has calculated that if poured all at once, the volume of concrete in the Hoover Dam would take 125 years to cool to surrounding temperatures and would irreparably crack from the thermal changes. The lake impounded by this dam, known as Lake Mead, is the largest reservoir in the US by volume. However, Lake Mead has steadily dropped over the past few decades, as many other reservoirs in the country have.