Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,

History can be a fragile thing in San Marcos. This is something we learned not so long ago when the historic Old Telephone Company building on San Antonio Street was demolished without so much as a “Howdy do!” One day it was there. Then it was gone. A handsome example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture – a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places – was reduced to a pile of dusty rubble. Only then did we realize what was lost and act to prevent future erasure of our local historic and cultural legacy.