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Feeding the Golden Goose
1924-1946
1924
Artists Rena Maverick Green and Emily Edwards organize San Antonio
Conservation Society to save 1859 Market House and the city’s
cultural heritage, Emily Edwards elected president. Conservation
Society may be first group in nation to seek preservation of both
the historic built environment and the natural environment.
Conservation Society seeks option on lands around all missions for
parks under leadership of Rena Maverick Green.
1925
City razes 1859 Market House for street widening, San Antonio River
flood-control channel planned through site.
Conservation Society and DRT Alamo Chapter co-sponsor public meeting
seeking purchase of remaining privately owned property adjoining
Alamo church.
1926
Witte Museum, city’s first public museum, opens with backing of
Conservation Society. The Society is one of three local cultural
organizations to occupy exhibit space in the new museum.
Last original doors of San José Mission Granary become Conservation
Society’s first property.
1927
Anna Ellis, then Margaret Lewis, elected Conservation Society
president.
1929
Conservation Society endorses Robert Hugman’s river beautification
plan.
Conservation Society begins purchasing San José Mission Granary
property.
New San Pedro Playhouse replicates façade design of razed Market
House.
1931
Conservation Society completes purchase of San José Mission Granary
and begins restoration.
Amanda Cartwright Taylor elected Conservation Society president.
1933
Rena Maverick Green elected Conservation Society president.
San José Mission Granary restoration completed.
1935
Congressman Maury Maverick seeks designation of San José Mission as
national park.
Elizabeth Orynski Graham elected Conservation Society president.
1936
Restored San José Mission compound dedicated, City Public Service
Company begins tour bus service.
Conservation Society purchases Espada Mission acequia aqueduct, the
only Spanish structure of its type still in use in the United
States.
Conservation Society holds first Indian Harvest Festival, precursor
of a Night In Old San Antonio, on San José Mission plaza.
1937
Lee Upson Palfrey elected Conservation Society president.
1939
Mayor Maury Maverick begins federally funded La Villita restoration
project.
Federally funded work begins on Robert Hugman’s River Bend
beautification.
Amanda Taylor elected Conservation Society president for second
time.
1940
Annual Indian Harvest Festival moved from San José to San Antonio
River as a Jubilee promoting River Bend project.
1941
Conservation Society, Bexar County, and Catholic Church cooperate in
transfer of San José mission compound property, except church, to
State of Texas as state park. San José Mission is designated
National Historic Site.
Martha Camp elected Conservation Society president.
River Bend Project dedicated, Conservation Society celebrates with
River Festival.
La Villita restoration dedicated.
1942
Conservation Society uses profits from its fall festival to put a
down payment on the Dashiell House at 511 Villita Street.
1946
Conservation Society’s annual Fall River Festival moved to spring
for Fiesta Week, later named A Night in Old San Antonio.
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