The Holiday Inn Express San Antonio N-Riverwalk Area (formerly the Comfort Inn Alamo/Riverwalk) is a hotel in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA.[1]
Built in 1878, the five-story building is rich in history and served as the San Antonio Bexar County Jail[2] until 1962.[3] In recent years, before becoming a hotel, the building was a records depot for both the city and county and is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The five-story stone and brick structure was originally designed by prominent architect Alfred Giles[2] as a two-story limestone facility containing twenty jail cells. Because of a rapid increase in the city's population, Henry T. Phelps designed a third-floor addition and remodeled the building in 1912, transforming it to the Mission Revival style.
In 1926, a second expansion was designed by Atlee and Robert Ayres,[4]