One of the last remaining structures of an early neighborhood on San Antonio’s West Side has burned down, ending a years-long debate on whether it should be recognized as a historic landmark.
The Dashiell House, one of the last remaining structures of an early neighborhood on San Antonio’s West Side, has burned down following a fire late Wednesday night, ending a years-long debate on whether it should be recognized as a historic landmark.
In 2020, an investment group managed by the Bill Miller Bar-B-Q chain had bought the quarter-acre property from the child welfare nonprofit Boys Town. They sought to remove the structure’s landmark status to demolish it and make way for an eight-story apartment building, which would house 200 units and a street-level retail center.
Conservation advocates pushed for the historic designation in order to halt demolition last year, saying that they believed the buildinghistoric recognition, the first being that it is “a rare remnant of Laredito, the near-Westside Mexican American community.” “It is profoundly sad that one of the city’s last landmarks of Laredito has been burned,” she said in a statement. “This history includes the only reminder of the city’s Red Light District as well as a century of community care under the Carmelite Sister and Father Flanagan’s Boys Town.”
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