Things to know about the Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio
The lobby was once a morgue. The top floor, a crematorium. And that cozy, romantic fireplace — well, it's lit by a pilot light that once fueled the crematorium. The fabled ghost stories haunting the Emily Morgan Hotel are all inspired by its history as a Medical Arts Building.
Long before San Antonio's iconic Gothic tower on Alamo Plaza had five-star nobility as the "official hotel of the Alamo," it was an office building for doctors and dentists, built on a site that was once a marble rock yard.
- Long before it became “the official hotel of the Alamo,” the Emily Morgan Hotel was established as the Medical Arts Building.
- The Gothic-revival skyscraper, the tallest in San Antonio when it was first erected.
- In the Gothic style, gargoyles cut along the building are contorted to portray a medical affliction.
- The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Alamo Plaza Historic District in 1977. This photo was taken in 1928.
- The hotel takes its name from an enchanting woman whom legend has it kept General Santa Ana distracted during the Battle of San Jacinto — inspiring the story of the Yellow Rose of Texas.
- The champagne bathtub overlooking downtown San Antonio is one of the luxury perks of this five-star hotel. A more posh take on the hot tub, this one fills the water with tiny, champagne-like bubbles
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