Historical sketch and guide to the Alamo . from that of the originalpost. The mission took its title after it became a parishfrom the beautiful trees along the bank of the river andacequia, the word being the Spanish for the tree knownto America as the cottonwood. As will be seen by a glance, either at the building bythe visitor or at the frontispiece by the reader, theMission or Church of the Alamo was a most sub-stantially and somewhat artistically built these old missions were built upon the Cesseranplan, with extremely heavy walls and partitions be-tween rooms, parapetted cor
Historical sketch and guide to the Alamo . from that of the originalpost. The mission took its title after it became a parishfrom the beautiful trees along the bank of the river andacequia, the word being the Spanish for the tree knownto America as the cottonwood. As will be seen by a glance, either at the building bythe visitor or at the frontispiece by the reader, theMission or Church of the Alamo was a most sub-stantially and somewhat artistically built these old missions were built upon the Cesseranplan, with extremely heavy walls and partitions be-tween rooms, parapetted cornices, graveled azoteasfor roofs, the miain building of a mission always com-bining the features of a church and a fortress. The Church of the Alamo was but the central build-ing of the mission. A visit to the Mission de la Con-sepcion or the Mission San Jose at the present timewill give an idea of the surrounding structures, at boththose missions parts of the old embattlement walls, andsome of the smaller buildings which were parts of 44. OP/\\MO. GROVJMD PL,/\rS A MI-S-SIOM. t> FROCST- r^OOf^ OP MlSSlOtS E, -^ ^OFEET UOrSG. COMMEC-^l^4Gl CUVJRCM Wl-rn MOMASTERV. * A U,OW ^T-OME GR 114-FEe-T UQMG /NMD 17 WID&. XtNDJ «OOMS BUIL^T AG/XIMST «-\.;€)TeRV WALL FROM 6T06FEeT MlOM ^ T-mCH\-e-r e f^v AMD WAUL SEPAr^Anri tSCx ^ rROrvn Cl-vvjRCH COURT OF COrSSECRA-TED CROUrsDO. MOINKS BURYirSO OROUIMD p OPEr«»irsc>,i(si-ro iyiom/x&terv court. Q. ROOr^. R. DOORS or tvlOM T: DITCJ-i, them, still remaining intact. Those of the Alamo have,unfortunately, been completely destroyed or removed. The Plan of the Alamo, which accompanies, willgive a fair idea of the extent of the enclosure and theareas of the different parts thereof. The church wasthe only finished or architectural part of the monastery, which stood immediately in the lef
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