As one of the owners of the Tower Life building, we are trying to get the details on the big dragon gargoyles on the top of the building. Do you know who conceived them and where they were made? I spoke to the original terra-cotta manufacturer, Boston Valley, about them. They did all the other terra cotta on the building but have no records of these particular gargoyles.
No leap from Tower Life roof Ayres — whose son Robert was lead architect on the Smith-Young Tower — was a member of “a committee promoting the erection of a memorial arch on Alamo Plaza,” says the San Antonio Light, Oct. 23, 1925.
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