About this tour
Between 1890 and 1930, San Antonio's brewery presidents, oilmen, and cattle barons built themselves a neighborhood, and it's still standing: Monte Vista is one of the largest contiguous historic districts in Texas, mile after mile of Georgian, Mediterranean, Spanish Revival, and Art Deco mansions laid out on wide, oak-lined boulevards. This driving loop threads eight of its landmark stops — grand houses, a Gothic Revival church, and a legendary Tex-Mex diner on the district's edge — tracing the fortunes, beer, cattle, and banking, that built one of the city's most striking neighborhoods.