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William Achatius Menger ... the original hotel. As a well-to-do family of importance to the community, the Mengers were frequently photographed. While the photo in the San Antonio Fire Museum ...
This summer, step into the heart of San Antonio’s rich history with a stay at The Historic Menger Hotel, with our front doors now opening to the newly renovated Alamo Plaza de Valero.
Today, San Antonio happily languishes in the shadow of Dallas and Houston, but it was once one of the hottest battlefields on the continent. And the Menger Hotel has always been close to the action.
A Juneteenth celebration took place near the Alamo on Thursday, marking the first time a play was performed at the pavilion in front of the Menger ...
I set out for San Antonio on a Friday ... The oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi, the Menger is as elegant as it is historic. Opened in 1859 by German immigrant William ...
Menger — a cooper, or barrel maker, by trade — first dabbled in brewing his own beer after immigrating to San Antonio from ... ghost expert at the historic Menger Hotel.
Texas is as haunted as it is historic ... hotel for the past 10 years. After growing up in a haunted house in San Antonio, Swartz is a lifelong believer. Doing dinner tours through the Menger ...
David Elder kicks off the spooky season with a ghost tour of the historic Menger Hotel. David joins Sister’s Grimm Ghost tour guide, Lee Marshall, to some of the most haunted areas of the hotel ...
Listen, I enjoy a scare or two around spooky season, but you’ll never catch me dead at any of these places in San Antonio I’m about to mention. Pun (mildly) intended. Historic Hotels of ...