Buster Simpson© 2018 WATERMARKS // MARCAS DE AGUA

WATERMARKS // MARCAS DE AGUA Broadway Cultural Corridor Art Master Plan San Antonio, Texas BUSTER SIMPSON in collaboration with BWC DESIGN October 2018 PREPARED FOR PUBLIC ART SAN ANTONIO

The Arts Plan team of Buster Simpson, a seasoned public artist with national and international experience, and Bender Wells Clark Design, an established San Antonio-based urban design and landscape architectural firm, is highly qualified with many years of experience in planning, designing and implementing public art plans and public art installations. The team has direct knowledge and experience throughout the region, the City and within this specific corridor.

The master planning process included analysis of the history, geography, infrastructure, context and natural factors of the region. Previous efforts developed for the Broadway Corridor were reviewed including: plans, studies, design competitions, and proposals. Time was spent on the street observing and recording conditions along Broadway and in the surrounding areas, leading to the concepts, guidelines and principles found in this plan.

The Broadway Cultural Corridor Art Master Plan has benefited from a recent planning effort by Centro San Antonio and MIG, a Berkley-based design and planning firm. It is a well-conceived document developed from considerable stakeholder input for physical improvements to the Broadway Right-of-Way. In 2017, voters passed a 42 million dollar bond that provides for Broadway Street planning and improvements including construction of enhancements to infrastructure from Downtown to Mulberry Street, and some as far as Hildebrand Avenue.

The Centro Antonio/MIG plan has become the basis for future roadway and streetscape improvements for the public realm in the area. It has influenced this Arts Plan and in return we hope the Arts Plan will influence future streetscape enhancements and public art. Utilization of the public art framework proposed in this Arts Plan should be a goal of any future development of the Broadway Corridor.

Broadway corridor showing three phases of street redesign.

The Broadway Cultural Corridor Art Master Plan is a framework with a long-range vision. San Antonio River Water, in all of its manifestations, is a connecting element, becoming a physical and Headwater Springs conceptual strata that brings meaning and broad opportunities for interpretation and integration to the Broadway Cultural Corridor. Water is intended as metaphor, revealing the flows of culture and nature along the Corridor.

The Arts Plan draws from history and from the contemporary, civic and cultural aspirations of San Antonio. It serves as a conceptual armature, providing form and guidance while embracing traditional and present-day cultural expressions. It supports individual artists along River Street with creative communities and sustainable economies. (now Broadway Street)

Elements of the Arts Plan are to become manifest over time through commissions, performances, installations, analogue and digital media, streetscape engagements, and as Acequia Madre de Valero artist-generated events. It is intended to catalyze collaborative endeavors between individuals, cultural institutions, community groups and businesses. The Arts Plan presents a physical and conceptual framework, based on the themes of water and culture, called Watermarks or Marcas de Agua. With a series of iconic sculptures located strategically along the Broadway Cultural Corridor, aesthetic and conceptual continuity is created.

The Arts Plan introduces:

• Watermarks // Marcas de Agua - background, creation, evolution, sizes, potential uses; • an inaugural process for engaging artists and creating prototypes; and • a guide for the development of future programmatic elements that build upon the theme and relationship building aspects of Watermarks.

Also included in the Arts Plan are: a conceptual distribution overview; placement suggestions; example approaches for specific locations; and potential color, material and planting palettes.

Three map overlays show the project area at different times along the Broadway Street Corridor. The 1908 map by City engineers indicates the relationship of River Avenue, now Broadway Street, to both the San Antonio River and the Acequia Madre de Valero. The most recent layer, the I-35 and I-37 interchange, creates a passage or threshold between the downtown core and the Cultural Corridor.

2017 construction site at the San Pedro Creek Improvement Project located at the Flood Tunnel inlet and linear park. Photo reveals the extensive concrete infrastructure, a referencing form for Watermarks.

901 Yakima Ave South • Seattle, WA 98144 WATERMARKS // MARCAS DE AGUA Buster Simpson 206.328.6212 Studio • 206.753.7717 Mobile BENDER WELLS CLARK DESIGN BROADWAY CULTURAL CORRIDOR SAN ANTONIO, TX 2018-10-03 3 © 2018 [email protected] • www.bustersimpson.net 830 North Alamo Street • San Antonio, Texas 78215 • (210) 692-9221 ART MASTER PLAN WATERMARKS // MARCAS DE AGUA THE FORM Markers of story and journey, culture and water A base form for Watermark sculptures has been developed by the Arts Plan team in reference to the shape of engineered water utility pipes that are BACKGROUND: BROADWAY CULTURAL CORRIDOR, often used to divert underground water flow. The form is a precast concrete FORMED BY WATER AND CULTURE conical cylinder which appropriates utilitarian civic plumbing design as an aesthetic means to metaphorically reveal hidden waterways and aspects A major influence on the form and function of San Antonio, and specifically of culture. The form will be custom designed to facilitate stacking up to four the Broadway Corridor, has been water. The San Antonio River and the tiers high and allowing for four sizes of sculptures: 1-Tier, 2-Tier, 3-Tier and Blue Hole (the source of the River), are primary natural features in the 4-Tier. landscape. The River and its source provided for thousands of years of human occupation, leading to the founding of San Antonio nearly 300 years The forms are contextual, symbolic and cost-effective armatures to be used ago. Below ground, water flowing from Edwards Aquifer has given rise to a as the base for sculptures. A custom steel mold will be fabricated to cast number of engineered waterworks in the area. Acequias, engineered and the concrete base form. A typical eccentric conical drop inlet design will be community-operated watercourses, gave form to many streets and property modified for the form to have a smaller, more sidewalk-friendly footprint. lines. For many years, the Acequia Madre and the Upper Labor Acequia The modification also enables the sculptures to present an interesting facilitated water flow for the irrigation of crops in the City. Broadway Street sinuous form when stacked, reminiscent of an animated riverine flow. The itself was originally called River Street. custom design provides for a variety stacking options in differing rotational positions, and for the application of unique surfaces treatments. After World War II, the car became the dominant form-giver to the City, and Broadway Street became the northern gateway to downtown. Over time, many cultural institutions clustered within this area including: the San PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT Antonio Museum of Art, the Witte Museum, the DoSeum, the San Antonio AND INITIAL ARTIST ENGAGEMENT Botanical Center, and the McNay Art Museum. With local parks, adjacent The Arts Plan has a component to it that is unusual in the realm of master neighborhoods, and commercial development, the Broadway Corridor has planning. It includes the design and creation of prototype elements to guide become a vibrant place linking to Downtown and Northside neighborhoods and shepherd a sense of consistency and quality along the Broadway Storm and sanitary water pre-cast concrete conical forms uncovered during excavation along River and Acequia paths. of San Pedro Creek are similar to those to be used for the base form of Watermarks. The Corridor. While allowing for creative exploration, the design team will guide conceptual intent is to invert the utilitarian function of concealing natural water systems into an inaugural period towards a collaborative result that attains an element of sculptural reveals. WATERMARKS AS A FRAMEWORK cohesion in order to establish unity and connectivity along the streetscape. The project title “Watermarks // Marcas de Agua” represents the impression San Antonio has a Pre-Qualified Artist Roster, a list of people who have and expression of how water impacts our lives in many ways. The title been selected to a pubic artist list after submitting qualifications to the grounds the sculptures in place as markers, and provides a timely way to City of San Antonio’s Arts Commission during its annual call for Roster elevate, reference and engage with culture and nature metaphorically and candidates. Roster artists are chosen by a selection panel and approved by physically. the Arts Commission and City Council.

The Broadway Cultural Corridor Art Master Plan shares the nearby River To begin the prototype development process, the Arts Plan team will select Walk’s ideals of connecting with the flow of San Antonio’s people and water. a number of artists from the City’s Artist Roster to send Requests for Watermarks are a streetscape language of forms and a series of sculptural Expressions of Interest (REOI). Artists will learn about the project in the installations that would precede and coincide with the design-build projects REOI and be requested, if interested, to return specific information such as taking place along the Corridor. Watermarks are cairn-like wayfinding a letter of interest and availability to the Arts Plan team. Ten artists will be elements that provide aesthetic continuity. They equip the Corridor with a selected from the responses received to be invited to an orientation about framework that allows for continuous creative replenishment and guide the the Arts Plan and Watermarks // Marcas de Agua. After the orientation, evolution of a social, ecological, and cultural recharge zone to nurture San the ten artists will each be given a $500 stipend and two weeks to Antonio’s vitality. develop proposals for how they would embellish the base form of a 1-Tier Watermark planter. Once proposals are submitted, the Arts Plan team will The Arts Plan team will collaborate early on with the designers of Broadway’s select five artists who will each be commissioned to develop their proposed streetscape improvements about placement and function options for prototypes. Watermarks in order to maximize site specific opportunities, future artist engagement, and Cultural Corridor connections. Early collaboration may lead The five completed prototype artworks will function as planters and be to the sculptures becoming more integrated streetscape amenities serving temporarily sited along the Broadway Corridor to inaugurate the Watermark multiple functions such as being used as planters, pedestals, wayfinding series. Transformed by artists, the base forms for the sculptures will Originally a cylindrical form, this clay-stucco cairn in Southern Mexico has been embellished markers, kiosks, water cisterns or fountains. become unique, movable works of art adding a contemporary yet timeless to have the shape of a coiled snake.

• Assess collaboration and partnership opportunities with private and COMMISSIONS FOR LARGE SCALE WATERMARK SCULPTURES public institutions, property owners and city agencies. After the initial placement of 1-Tier Watermarks along the streetscape and assessment of the prototype process by the Arts Plan team and other SHARED CONNECTIONS AND ONGOING INTERACTIONS stakeholders, commissions of larger Portajes will be considered and Watermarks // Marcas de Agua of the Broadway Cultural Corridor are developed. Locations for 2, 3 and 4-Tier sculptures will be determined markers of a culture of care and respect for water in all of its manifestations. collaboratively by project artists, BWC Design, Public Art San Antonio, Watermarks hold a hopeful artistic vision that speaks of ancient relations the streetscape design team and adjacent businesses. Locations for and modern day resilience. They are meant to connect and weave together Watermarks to function as planters, pallets, pedestals, seating, cisterns, people and ideas and catalyze interaction and discourse. As an evolving bus stops, and wayfinding elements will be identified and placed into the framework for the Broadway Cultural Corridor Arts Master Plan, Watermarks scope of work for design and implementation of the overall streetscape bring together form, function and the flow of social collaboration. project.

Allowing an iterative approach to the development of the Watermarks series provides room to learn from the prototype phase before commissioning large scale sculptures, possibly leading to more successful site-specific placements and facilitating relationship-building in the community. Benefits from working collaboratively may also be realized, such as cost savings from the development of multi-functional amenities, and the creation of a Watermark concept drawing suggests a utilitarian urban system revealed. sense of place and ownership in the neighborhood.

SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE PROGRAMMING AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

• Explore opportunities for public events that would introduce and promote the project and engage the community. For example, consider an inaugural project which “sets in play” the intent and spirit of a Watermark Pedestal Project. Send out a City-wide call to local creatives for “Water Vessels’ to be sited prior to a major parade event along Broadway to engage the community and reinforce a connection to water. The “Vessels” could be large or small, and be made from a variety of materials such as: found and repurposed materials, paper mache, or cardboard. A powerful relationship between the Broadway Cultural Corridor and the neighborhoods could develop from a memorable social art practice event.

• Consider ways to incorporate the theme of Watermarks into diverse artistic practices and venues. For example, develop an inventory of and programing approaches for available wall surfaces for murals on private and public surfaces that resonate with the theme. Performances could also be created in relationship to Watermarks. Conduits designed to channel urban water systems guide the form of Watermarks. • Identify locations of historic landmarks and sites of significance in Map showing natural San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek in blue with their respective tunnel bypasses to handle flooding events. support of and in collaboration with historic preservation entities

PREVIOUS PLANS & INFLUENCES

Broadway has been studied and discussed in several plans over the last 20 years. The following is a brief overview with respect to enhancements and art recommendations.

Broadway Study (2000) Mahnke Park River North Master Plan (2009) by Alex Caragonne, Carolyn Neighborhood Plan (2001) by Moule & Polyzoides Peterson, & Maria Pfeiffer This official neighborhood The River North Plan included This independent plan includes Broadway Broadway from Travis Street to comprehensive study of from Brackenridge Road to the I-35/I-37 interchange. One of Broadway from Hildebrand to Burr Road. As part of their the objectives of the plan was to E. Houston Street showed infill neighborhood objectives the “enhance the visual experience along development possibilities and following is included: Broadway by considering public streetscape improvements. art installations along the corridor, Many of the project ideas “Objective 2.4 Design culminating at Maverick Park”. highlighted have occurred Enhancements- Facilitate the including the Pearl, major creation of public art within The Public Art Section of the plan multi-family projects and San the neighborhood.” Major stated “ every block along Broadway Antonio River Improvements. action steps included: “Explore within the district should contain a While the plan didn’t specifically the possibility of beautifying piece of public art visible from the identify art the beautification of commercial entities with street, announcing that Broadway Broadway’s streetscape was a murals or other forms of public is a major entrance to Downtown. It primary component. art. Encourage appropriate can be placed in private courtyards, design enhancements of public entrance areas, on sidewalks, in spaces…” pocket parks or on buildings. The public art selected should be colorful and/or striking.” Area south of I-35/I-37 interchange, including San Antonio Museum of Art, Broadway 2000, 1:100 master plan original drawings, Alexander Caragonne papers, MS 412.

Midtown Brackenridge Master Plan Roadside Treasures-Buildings of the (2011) Automotive Era (2012) by Gateway Planning Group by the San Antonio Conservation Society

The boundaries of this plan included As part of an exhibit highlighting the history of buildings Broadway from the I-35/I-37 interchange to along Broadway the Conservation Society produced a just north of Hildebrand and promotes the brochure showing current (and sometimes lost buildings) re-invention of Broadway. It identified its and their former uses. The images reinforce the importance importance by connecting Alamo Heights and of Broadway as a major connection to and from Downtown Terrell Hills to Downtown as well as the links and provide opportunities for interpretive graphics in the between the Witte Museum, Brackenridge Corridor. Park, the Zoo, Mahnke Park, Botanical Center, DoSeum, the Pearl and the Museum of Art.

“The design of Broadway must be re- considered to function as a walkable urban street.”

Build Your Own 1000 Parks-A line in the Broadway (2016) Sky (2016) sponsored by Centro by Antonio Petrov & San Antonio and the the Expander Lab UTSA College Pearl of Architecture This design competition aimed to bring a new This design project identified level of attention Broadway as a priority condition to Broadway. It for enhancements. “Its urban encouraged creative façade is more a reflection of a expression and how it commercial corridor than a great can be used to improve avenue”. Broadway. Many of the proposals dealt with The plan envisioned the addition aesthetics along the of pocket parks and other corridor or under the enhancements (including a sky I-35/I-37 interchange. ride) its entire length.

SA Tomorrow Broadway Corridor Concept Comprehensive Plan (2016) Plan (2016) by MIG sponsored by Centro San Antonio & prepared by MIG The comprehensive plan for the City generally speaks of enhancements. The plan limits extend from It identifies a more detailed Sector Houston Street to Hildebrand plan effort for the Broadway/ and propose a total re-design of Midtown area. Broadway to a Complete Street with sidewalks, bike lanes, street trees, and other enhancements. One of the recommended over- arching design criteria is to unify the corridor with placemaking, wayfinding, & signage.

WATER CONNECTIONS

The source of the San Antonio River begins with the geologic karst formation called the Edwards Aquifer located in the foothills west of San Antonio. As the River flows down through the cavernous limestone strata in an easterly direction, pressure increases until the water finds its way to the surface as springs. The Blue Hole, also known as San Antonio Springs, adjacent to Broadway Street is one of the sources of the San Antonio River. The City’s history and culture is intertwined with these springs and the River. One goal of Watermarks is to inspire art that connects the history and culture of San Antonio with its River.

Schematic of karst formation, Edwards Aquifer, west of San Antonio. San Antonio Spring, aka “The Blue Hole,” iconic head of the Blue Hole – one of the many springs expressed from A Mission building’s downspout directs roof water. San Antonio River, once the sixth largest spring in Texas Edwards Aquifer, and is a source of the San Antonio River.

Woman drawing a bucket of water from backyard well, San Antonio, TX. “....The acequia system follows a “one farmer, one vote” system that has led researchers to consider this a form of “water Standpipe painted with image of democracy.” Acequias do not only preserve history, they preserve the land that, in turn, preserves the people. If the acequia is Madonna de Guadalupe, Los Ebanos still a primarily earthen system, it seeps water back into the ground and follows the land’s natural contours. Since Road, United Irrigation District. acequia maintenance requires hands, not machines, the community must work together to sustain the irrigation channels.” -Wikipedia

THE BROADWAY CULTURAL CORRIDOR CONNECTION

In today urbanized watershed, much of the water flow of San Antonio’s springs and acequias has become hidden by streets and replaced by a culverted infrastructure. Watermarks make a connection to natural, cultural and engineered systems. Typically used for below grade channeling of urban waterways, the pre-cast storm water components would be newly employed to become an iconic presence. They would be sculptural markers that embrace cultural flow and community engagement. From San Antonio’s agrarian beginnings to today, water remains a cultural connector. Watermarks honor San Antonio’s relationship to water and represent the utilitarian aspects of sustainable urban watershed practices. Markers of the past, present and future, these sculptures bring awareness of water infrastructure to the surface. As an expression of the artistic energies of San Antonio, Watermarks serve to reinforce the aesthetic diversity experienced along the Broadway Cultural Corridor,

Watermarks would be assembled to be one of four primary height categories: 1, 2, 3 and 4-Tier. Those sited along the Broadway Cultural Corridor would stand as reoccurring urban trail “blaze” marks as a form of wayfinding with their heights denoting specific civic functions.The “bones” of Watermarks are precast eccentric conical units, cost-effective units based on precast utility storm water drop inlets that metaphorically refer to underground urban streams

1-Tier 2-Tier 3-Tier 4-Tier

C ONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS

1-Tier Watermarks would serve as pedestals or planters and would be the only movable Watermarks. Objects could be choreographed to be placed on Watermark pedestals in anticipation of cultural events such as parades or festivals, as ongoing public art expressions or as programmed installations. As a sculpture/object pedestal, the surface of the Watermark would be minimally embellished concrete and include attachment imbeds for securing objects, providing a neutral base to accommodate a range of objects.

Watermarks intended to work as planters would have a highly embellished exterior surface such as mosaic tiles and could be set on the sidewalk with either the wide or narrow end facing up. Placing embellished Watermarks as planters adds a personal touch of living color to the streetscape. An Adopt-a-Planter program could be initiated to inspire volunteer stewardship from individuals or groups. Planting options range from native and drought tolerant plantings, to brilliant flower displays depending on irrigation availability. Planters irrigated with reclaimed water sources and roof water runoff would offer dramatic examples of sustainable practices and be subtle teaching tools for reducing flooding and reliance on the aquifer for irrigation.

CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS

2-Tier Watermarks, made up of two stacked units. These installations could provide elevated planter opportunities, perhaps suggesting a vase form for special plantings. They could act as place markers or be embellished for other site specific purposes.

CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS

3-Tier Watermarks will be site specific and highly embellished. They might serve as kiosks at entries to cultural institutions, be fit with solar panels to power audial or illuminating features, or be installed at prominent viewpoints, gateways or thresholds along the Cultural Corridor. The commissioning of these unique artworks will allow opportunities for cultural institutions to bring their unique voices to the episodic wayfinding conversation.

CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS

4-Tier Watermarks would be four units high and would denote important axial sight lines and major civic, cultural and institutional assets. They would be installed at prominent viewpoints, gateways and like 3-Tier Watermarks, cultural institutions would participate in the design discussions.

P RECAST CONICAL UNITS

The “bones” of Watermarks are precast eccentric conical units. These cost-effective units are the “kit of forms” that when stacked offer various sculptural shapes.

San Antonio Oldcastle Precast, a concrete pipe manufacturer, will be casting the conical units for Watermarks and has recommended two steel mold fabricators to insure a design that works with their production system. A custom eccentric conical form, as per the design shown on this page, provides a unique shape that has a smaller, more compatible footprint for the streetscape than typical conduit piping. The geometry of the cone retains its utilitarian essence, inspiration and low cost, yet allows for interesting installation variations.

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TBD WHICH END OF FORM TO POUR CONCRETE INTO, AS PER FABRICATOR SUGGESTION (OPPOSITE END TO BE SEALED). CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORM FOR THE 36" POURING OF THIS ECCENTRIC CONE IS TO BE TYPICAL OF WET CAST CONCRETE MANHOLE FORMS.

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CONCEPTUAL PLACEMENT

The proposed MIG streetscape plan serves as base maps and drawings for the addition of the hypothetical 4-TIER 3-TIER 1-TIER / 2-TIER Upper Broadway placement of 1, 2, 3 Cultural and 4-Tier Watermarks. Corridor Blvd Army

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CONCEPTUAL PLACEMENT Study of three axial viewpoints for possible 3-Tier or 4-Tier installations along the Cultural Corridor where Broadway makes a slight angled turn. 4-TIER 3-TIER 1-TIER / 2-TIER

Locations as per MIG plan at Broadway & Jones Locations as per MIG plan at Broadway & Avenue B Locations as per MIG plan at Broadway & Hildebrand

SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN WATERMARKS Mahncke Park serves as a forecourt for the San Antonio Botanical Garden and provides many opportunities to 4-TIER 3-TIER 1-TIER / 2-TIER enhance the Garden’s mission. The Mahncke Park bus stop location could be a Watermark-based collaborative design that offers a planting opportunity for the museum to come to the street (the bus stop).

The Botanical Garden has had a long relationship with water infrastructure which could be appropriately represented by a Watermark. It was the home of one of the City’s first reservoirs; an historic acequia once traversed the Mahncke Park near Broadway; and currently a stream daylights just as it enters the Park. The Garden could participate in the ‘Adopt a Planter” Program, and have its botanical impact reach outside the Garden to spread further along the streetscape.

BRACKENRIDGE PARK Entry Kiosk into Brackenridge Park on Brackenridge Drive and Broadway Street. This could be a good location for a Watermark that includes an electronic reader that provides current park information as well as provisions for postings.

Local Color Palettes DICHROIC GLASS TILE The selection of colors appearing on Watermarks should be of a local cultural palette. Applied colors should have character and the ability to have a lasting contextual relationship to San ASSORTED MOSAIC TILE Antonio.

Regional Materials Palettes A wide variety of regional material such as stones, fossils, clay pipe, tile, and broken pottery can provide surface options for reflecting local and regional themes.These materials are often historically and culturally rooted in the city and are highly revealing, durable and appropriate for public art pieces along the Broadway Cultural Corridor. Care will be taken to exclude sharp edges and protruding objects.

Cultural Montage Palettes There are a variety of decorative approaches to consider applying to Watermarks to reflect LOCALLY MANUFACTURED historical and cultural moments that have influenced San Antonio’s history, mosaic techniques URBAN RUBBLE CLAY PIPE being among the most versatile. Mosaic interpretations should not be restricted to commercial CONGLOMERATE / tiles but should explore materials and objects that best express the aesthetic and thematic TERRAZZO TESSERAE intent.

FIRED TERRACOTTA Native Planting Palettes San Antonio’s relationship to water is perhaps never more prominently demonstrated than in respect to local flora and fauna. Whether agricultural or ecological in its relevance to the city, plant life and its parallel association with the distribution of water has undoubtedly shaped San Antonio both spatially and culturally. By incorporating native plant species, both local color EDWARDS KARST FORMATION and local texture (and sometimes even local flavor) can be divulged while responding to the WITH WATER AQUIFER – elemental theme of Watermarks. LIMESTONE TESSERAE AND GLASS TILES

LLANO UPLIFT GRANITE AND SCHIST TESSERAE

THE WITTE MUSEUM Considering the extensive and varied collection of the Witte Museum, a 4-Tier Watermark could bear witness to relics of the built environment. A forum for “historic accretion,” significant pieces of rubble and artifacts from buildings, monuments and other notable structures could be placed on the surface of a Watermark adjacent to the Museum as a conglomeration of history, to be accompanied by text stating the significance of the collected relics.

This Watermark example is reminiscent of the exterior of the Chicago Tribune Tower, where actual fragments of world history have been applied to the building façade. The Watermark at the Witte Museum would also be a reliquary of cultural passage, presenting time turned inside out.

I-35 HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS Historical images of past events dating from pre-Columbian times to early “River Street” as it evolved from a farm road to become Broadway Street lined with many cultural institutions. Locating “then and now” documents on Watermarks would tell the story of this dynamic roadway.

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A few examples of historic documentation available in the various archives found in San Antonio.

A Fox Photo, 1700 Broadway. B Thurmond’s Café, 1924 Broadway. C Butterkrust Bakery, 2201 Broadway. D Handy Andy Grocery Store, 2502 Broadway.

E Tai Shan Restaurant, 2611 Broadway. F Prince’s Burgers, 2702 Broadway. G Christie’s Restaurant, 3130 Broadway. H President John F. Kennedy Motorcade on Broadway, November 21, 1963 (One day before his assassination)

I Fiesta Parade on Broadway, 1944. J Atomic Liquors, 4130 Broadway. K Broadway & Hildebrand Intersection. L River Street Streetcar.

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DWARF MEXICAN PETUNIA CENTURY PLANT FLOWER PLUMBAGO FIRESPIKE TRAILING ROSEMARY PRIDE OF BARBADOS

BLACKFOOT DAISY DWARF MEXICAN SAGE LAVENDER COTTON TURK’S CAP SPINELESS PRICKLY PEAR

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Water vessels. Caddo pottery, University of Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory.