Historic Menger Hotel circa 1858 San Antonio Texas Fresco Digital Art
by Shawn O'Brien
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Historic Menger Hotel circa 1858 San Antonio Texas Fresco Digital Art
Artist
Shawn O'Brien
Medium
Digital Art - Fine Art Print
Description
Unique high angle view of the historic Menger Hotel facade in the Alamo District (built right next to the Alamo) of San Antonio, Texas, USA. Fresco digital art. Many more images and digital art from San Antonio can be found in my San Antonio Gallery.
The hotel was built beginning in 1858 by German immigrant William Menger, as an expansion of his boarding house business and adjunct to his brewery. Immediately successful, a 40-room extension was started before the initial building was completed in January 1859, 23 years after the fall of the adjacent Alamo.[1] By the 1870s, the Menger was the best known hotel in the southwest. The hotel is mentioned several times in the works of O Henry, and hosted Ulysses S. Grant in 1880. It hosted Theodore Roosevelt at least three times, most notably in 1898 when he used the bar to recruit Rough Riders, who fought in Cuba in the Spanish-American War.
The Menger was San Antonio's most popular hotel throughout the 19th Century. Other notable guests have included Robert E. Lee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mae West, Babe Ruth, Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William McKinley, and others were known to frequent the bar and hotel, which was periodically enlarged and remodelled to accommodate more guests.
The hotel also holds the unofficial title of "The Most Haunted Hotel in Texas." The Menger claims to host 32 different spirits including Richard King and Sallie White, a maid at the Menger who was murdered by her husband and buried at the hotel's expense.
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October 28th, 2014
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