Details for Menger Hotel
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5029003334
Data
| Marker Number | 3334 |
| Atlas Number | 5029003334 |
| Marker Title | Menger Hotel |
| Index Entry | Menger Hotel |
| Address | 204 Alamo Plaza |
| City | San Antonio |
| County | Bexar |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 549827 |
| UTM Northing | 3255200 |
| Subject Codes | inns, hotels, motels |
| Marker Year | 1965 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | Yes |
| Marker Location | Menger Hotel, 204 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | Medallion and Plate |
| Marker Text | Early San Antonio boarding house keeper, Wm. Menger in 1859 opened fine stone hotel, the "new" Menger, beside Alamo Plaza. To host Indians, presidents, poets, actors, generals, singers, public of the world. Served venison, quail, mutton, beef, soup made of San Antonio River turtles. Bar's vintages had ice imported by Gulf steamers and expressed to San Antonio in special wagons. Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders were recruited here. |