Downtown, the Pearl, Monte Vista and Mahncke Park

San Antonio began here. On 1 May 1718 the Franciscan Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares established the mission of San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo, and on 5 May the governor of the province, Martín de Alarcón, founded the presidio of San Antonio de Béxar, which moved in 1722 to the ground around Military Plaza where City Hall now stands. In 1731 Canary Islanders formed the villa of San Fernando de Béxar and the first regularly organized civil government in Texas. The flood of 9 and 10 September 1921 put up to twelve feet of water into downtown and killed at least 51 people; Olmos Dam on Olmos Creek was finished in 1926, and the bend of the river was made into the River Walk that Robert Hugman had envisioned in 1929 and that was completed in 1941. North of the business district, the Pearl brewery closed in June 2001, Silver Ventures bought its twenty-two acres in 2002, and the River Walk's Museum Reach was extended to it in 2009. Monte Vista became a City historic district on 17 July 1975, after more than 1,600 adult residents signed petitions for it, and Mahncke Park is the strip of green that joins Brackenridge Park, established in 1899 on about 200 acres given by George W. Brackenridge, to the San Antonio Botanical Garden. 5 guides are listed below.

Two things set buying here apart. The school district is San Antonio ISD, whose 2025 rate was 1.1552 per $100 against Northside ISD's 1.0049, so the tax arithmetic on this site's calculators, which is built on a Northside ISD address, does not apply here as it stands; and at the core of downtown the Downtown Public Improvement District adds an assessment of 0.15 per $100, or 0.09 on a condominium, to the usual units. And the City's districts reach the front of many houses north of downtown: Monte Vista is a City historic district, as is a small part of Tobin Hill, and Beacon Hill and Mahncke Park are neighborhood conservation districts, zoning overlays the City Council adopted by ordinance in 2005 and 2008. Whether a house is inside one, and what that district asks of an owner before exterior work, an addition or a teardown, is worth settling with the City before the offer rather than after it.