The famous western facade will be visible, but the Alamo Church interior will be off-limits to visitors. The Alamo is in the midst of a $550 preservation project, which includes restoring the ...

HOUSTON (AP) - A study by a team of Texas A&M-led architecture researchers employing lasers and digital images shows the iconic west facade of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio is slowly eroding.

The 4-foot-thick Alamo facade was modeled on a 1936 map of the historic building — drawn up for the Texas centennial that year — and construction of the set took nearly two years. Unlike the ...

While future plans are being readied, two experts have spent more than six hours a day for the past month perched atop a crane, studying crumbling areas of the Alamo church's mold-dotted facade.

The famous western facade will be visible, but the Alamo Church interior will be off-limits to visitors. The Alamo is in the midst of a $550 preservation project, which includes restoring the ...

The gently curved “hump” atop the Alamo is the signature not just for ... Even more elaborate carvings were planned for the facade, including statues of four saints in the niches.

HOUSTON (AP) – The iconic west facade of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio is slowly eroding, a study by a team of Texas A&M-led architecture researchers using lasers and digital images shows.

There are four niches on the front, outside wall of the Alamo. Because it once was a church, I would guess that they probably contained statutes of saints. Was this their purpose, and which saints ...

The neutral facade of the Alamo church, the most recognized building in Texas, may have at one time been painted in vivid colors by Native Americans and Spanish artisans, even though the limestone ...

Though not as widely discussed as other mysteries of the Alamo, many unanswered questions remain about the existence and fate of up to four saintly statues that adorned the façade of the mission ...

An antiquities dealer and a historian are suing for defamation over an article and a book that claims the Alamo experts fraudulently authenticated and sold artifacts from the historic Texas battle ...

Longer than the 13-day siege of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, the near life-size façade replica of the Franciscan mission in Cypress is facing a bitter battle of their own. The Cypress Alamo ...