San Antonio ยท River Walk
Drury Plaza Hotel San Antonio Riverwalk
The 24-story 1929 Alamo National Bank tower by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, with free hot breakfast; some rooms are in a newer addition.
- Built
- 1929Built 1929-30 as the 24-story Alamo National Bank Building; parking garage added 1961; converted to a hotel after the 2006 NRHP listing (nomination notes conversion underway to a 306-room hotel). The district inventory dates it 1930.
- Style
- Art Deco / eclectic skyscraper
- Architect
- Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 368
- Area
- River Walk
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
Alamo National Bank commissioned the tower just before the 1929 stock market crash, and it was completed in the early months of the Depression, with terra cotta and bronze detailing by Chicago’s Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. The building rests on belled concrete caissons 35 feet below street level. An eight-story parking garage was attached in 1961, and most later changes date to 1972-74 remodeling. The tower was converted to a hotel after its 2006 listing and now operates as the Drury Plaza.
The ghost story
Ghost-tour lore holds that a security guard's ghost still patrols the old Alamo National Bank vault, now a restaurant, that a phantom elevator operator rides the lifts, and that the 13th floor is the building's most active.
Source: ghostcitytours.com
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Parking: on-site paid
- Pets welcome
- Address: 105 S St Mary's St, San Antonio, TX 78205
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.