In January 1971, construction began on Alpha Tau Omega’s Roseville Apartments, an affordable housing project on San Antonio’s Eastside designed by Norcell Haywood and funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The sorority, a local chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, continues to run the apartment complex, which provides senior citizens with housing and programs to enhance their lives.
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Norcell Dan Haywood, the first licensed Black architect in San Antonio, shaped our city’s modern aesthetic. He designed community spaces for our historically Black Eastside such as churches, libraries, and community centers, and believed “[Minority architects] should be able to beneficially serve their profession and community at the same time without having to serve one at the expense of the other.”
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Artemisia Bowden was dean and President Emeritus of St. Philip’s College. She served the school from 1902 until her retirement in 1954 and was canonized by the Episcopal Church for her work in education. In addition to her work with St. Philip’s, Bowden was an active community advocate for San Antonio’s and Texas’ African American residents. Get to know this important civic leader and educator!
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ScoutSA Intern Angela Gallegos spent several months at OHP working on an innovative project about a unique architectural expression found in many of San Antonio’s historic neighborhoods. Craftsman bungalows can be spotted from Alta Vista to Highland Park, Denver Heights to East French Place. These homes represent a period of rapid residential growth in San Antonio’s early suburbs. Sprinkled throughout these developments are some exceptional properties with unusual features that seem to have been influenced by Asian designs. How did these bungalows come to exist in San Antonio?
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Although many of the original structures are gone, these institutions played an integral role in developing and sustaining resilient communities and represent the cultural heritage of the Eastside.
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