I had been researching the early nineteenth-century architectural history of the buildings of the mission of San Antonio de Valero, better known as the Alamo, for the last several years, when time allowed. 1 I enjoyed reading through the detailed captions of the plan once again but this time they struck me as similar to another document I had seen recently. In a recent excellent article on the construction of the parish church in San Antonio, Adán Benavides published the plan for the first time, with a translation of its notations. Architects who examined the plan during the Depression-era recovery projects in Texas in the 1930s suggested that it was for the mission church of Refugio, Texas, between Corpus Christi and Victoria. The church for which this plan had been drawn, however, has remained unidentified. Texas historians, particularly those interested in the architectural history of the Spanish missions of Texas, have long known of a plan in the Bexar Archives for the construction of the roof of a colonial or Mexican-period church. Un análisis de la información sobre el plano y documento nos da una visión de los métodos de construcción y del pensamiento innovador del maestro masón que trabajaba en la frontera norte de la Nueva España, justo antes del inicio de la revolución mexicana. Este plano y cálculo previos no identificados nos informan sobre las condiciones de la iglesia en 1810. An analysis of the information in the plan and document gives us a look at the building methods and innovative thinking of master masons working on the northern frontier of New Spain just before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.Įl autor ha identificado un plano sin fechar para la construcción de un techo de madera sobre una iglesia sin nombre, correspondiente a un cálculo preparado en 1810 para el techado de la misión inacabada de San Antonio de Valero (El Álamo), en San Antonio, Texas. This previously unrecognized plan and estimate tells us about the condition of the Valero church in 1810. The author has identified an undated plan for the construction of a wooden roof on an unnamed church as belonging to an estimate prepared in 1810 for the roofing of the unfinished mission church of San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), in San Antonio, Texas. National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior The Completion of the Church Roof of San Antonio de Valero

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