Where was the old Council House?

[benzden]

Have also discovered that the richest man in Texas at the time, Enoch Jones (17?? ~ 1863), built the 3 story mercantile building atop the old Council House footprint at Market & E. Main Plaza - he apparently also built the Municipal Market House next door (to the east), either before or after that first skyscraper in San Antonio was built in 1851 (per 1885 Sanborn lots & uses map). The Witte Museum also has an engraving taken off an etching by an unidentified artist in 1852 that shows a view of every single one of the tallest buildings around the Main Plaza (San Fernando Cathedral was always the tallest until soon after the mid-1800s) - it was taken on the west side of San Pedro Creek looking from the NW to the SE and shows the 3 story skyscraper, the cathedral and several two story buildings among all the pitched roof newly constructed European-style homes. Have yet to discover whether the first 2 story buiilding was the one at the NW corner of Commerce & Main (where a Bill Miller restaurant now sits) or the one at the SE corner of Commerce & Flores the next block west across the street - both have been indicated by various others to have been that first. A third 2 story was built on the south side of the Main Plaza much later but before the first 3 story one. Manuel Ignacio Rodriguez is supposed to have built that first 2 story in 1803 - since both are on Commerce (on oppossite sides of the street) and only a block away from each other, the confusion is understandable.

[huckster]

I had read of the historic Council House Fight before, yes, but never with such detailed historical minutiae
as has been described here.
Also can remember having read that a live horse was buried downtown San Antonio, (while still alive), in Main Plaza in some sort of ceremony to appease the Comanche also back in the nineteenth century.

Originally Posted by benzden

Have also discovered that the richest man in Texas at the time, Enoch Jones (17?? ~ 1863), built the 3 story mercantile building atop the old Council House footprint at Market & E. Main Plaza - he apparently also built the Municipal Market House next door (to the east), either before or after that first skyscraper in San Antonio was built in 1851 (per 1885 Sanborn lots & uses map). The Witte Museum also has an engraving taken off an etching by an unidentified artist in 1852 that shows a view of every single one of the tallest buildings around the Main Plaza (San Fernando Cathedral was always the tallest until soon after the mid-1800s) - it was taken on the west side of San Pedro Creek looking from the NW to the SE and shows the 3 story skyscraper, the cathedral and several two story buildings among all the pitched roof newly constructed European-style homes. Have yet to discover whether the first 2 story buiilding was the one at the NW corner of Commerce & Main (where a Bill Miller restaurant now sits) or the one at the SE corner of Commerce & Flores the next block west across the street - both have been indicated by various others to have been that first. A third 2 story was built on the south side of the Main Plaza much later but before the first 3 story one. Manuel Ignacio Rodriguez is supposed to have built that first 2 story in 1803 - since both are on Commerce (on oppossite sides of the street) and only a block away from each other, the confusion is understandable.