The original 1889 City Hall (left) building in Military Plaza rises above other buildings near San Fernando Cathedral (right) in Main Plaza. Credit: Courtesy / Raba Collection / San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation
Raba Collection /San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation – Main Plaza, circa 1892. Left to right:
the Southern Hotel, the towers of City Hall above the Hole in the Wall Restaurant, San Fernando Cathedral
and Frost National Bank. The oldest part of the Cathedral was built 1738-49, but the Gothic facade was not
completed until 1873.