The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, July 1966 - April, 1967 Page: 383
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The Second Battle for the Alamo
lined accomplishments of the San Antonio chapter and dis-
cussed the status of the Alamo:
A large part of the original Mission is still standing on Alamo
Plaza. The Chapel of the Mission is the property of the State-
but the scene of the greater part of that memorable martyrdom
has belonged for years to private individuals and is now used as
a wholesale grocery.43
Later in a magazine article Miss De Zavala sought to correct a
"mistaken idea" and "make plain . . . that the chief struggle
was in the monastery . . . a large part of which is to-day still
standing. . . . it was long one of my dreams . . . to restore the
Alamo and make of it a Texas Hall of Fame and a Museum of
Historic Art, Relics and Literature.""4
Adele B. Looscan of Houston, the most capable historian in
the DRT at that time and recognized as such by her regular
re-election to the post of historian-general, wrote that "an un-
fortunate and inexcusable ignorance" existed concerning the
Alamo, with the chapel "accepted by many who ought to know
better as the whole and only theatre of the siege, defense, and
holocaust. . . . this grand old pile [chapel] has been made the
medium for the perpetration of false accounts, until people who
do not read history, accept such teaching as true. . . ."5
What was Miss Driscoll's conception of the Alamo as 1905
opened? A newspaper article related her opinion that Texans
during the battle defended the outer walls before retreating
to the monastery and finally to the chapel,
Of the original buildings only the chapel remains standing. The
monastery fell to pieces long ago, and on the ground it occupied
a grocery store stands today. Even the chapel for many years was
used as a market. . .. Whether the Alamo purchase bill passes
the legislature or not the grocery store will come down and the hotel
which it was proposed at one time to build there will not be
43Adina De Zavala, Anniversary of the Victory of San Jacinto (1904), pamphlet
in De Zavala (Adina) Collection, B 5/33.
"Adina De Zavala, "Texas History-Written and Unwritten," Texas Talks, I
(June, 1904), 5-
"Adele B. Looscan, "The Work of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in
Behalf of the Alamo," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, VIII
(July, 1904), 79-80.383
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