RHH's photos with the keyword: historic house

These are the first photos of our recent trip. We drove over 5000 miles (8000 km), were in ten different states, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, though only passing through some of them. We visited five different national parks and monuments as well as other locations, including San Antonio, Texas, hiked around 60 miles of trails, biked, here in San Antonio, another 20 miles, and kayaked about 10 miles in Big Bend National Park. We were gone seventeen days, and most nights we camped in the back of our car. This was one exception to camping. Several of our children had booked us into this historic house in San Antonio for two nights and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay there. Oge House is on the river just south of downtown San Antonio and though once a private residence is now a Texas Historic Landmark and a guest house. The sign in front reads: "One of the early stone residences of San Antonio. First floor and basement were built as early as 1857 when place was owned by attorney Newton A. Mitchell and his wife Catherine (Elder). Louis Oge (1832-1915) bought house in 1881 after migrating (1885) to Texas with the Castro colony, serving in thee Texas Rangers with W. A. A. "Bigfoot" Wallace, and making a fortune as a rancher. He was a San Antonio business leader and served as alderman and school board president. He had leading architect Alfred Giles enlarge and remodel the house in neo-classical style." The photos show the house as we saw it when we first arrived (main photo), the house at night (first inset) and the room we had there (second inset), none of them remarkable photos but a good way, I thought, to post a long description of our trip. I'm eager to post better and more interesting photos than these, but didn't want to leave this part of our trip out of the record. We were treated like royalty there with a delicious breakfast each morning and port and sherry in the afternoon and evening. The other meals were our responsibility, but we were happy enough to be gone exploring the delights of this beautiful Texas city. We left home on the 10th of February and drove to Sheridan, Wyoming, where we spent the night. The next morning we drove on, intending to reach Amarillo, Texas, but ended up driving through the night to San Antonio due to issues with the car. We had some blowing snow, icy roads and cold weather in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado but it was a balmy day in San Antonio when we arrived. After having the car seen to, we checked into our guest house and then went for a walk along the river. San Antonio has walkways along the river, below the level of the city and at the level of the river. It is even possible to hire a boat tour of the city, but we did not do that. We went out again along the riverwalk in the evening and visited the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and site of a famous battle for Texas' independence from Mexico. The next day we hired bikes and followed the riverwalk ten miles south of the city along the Mission Trail, visiting four other old Spanish missions along the way, Mission Conception, Mission San Juan, Mission San Jose, and Mission Espada, returned for a second evening at Oge House. Friday morning after breakfast we left San Antonio and drove south and west to Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border arriving there in the afternoon where we had a backcountry campsite booked and some hiking planned.

This was our guest house in San Antonio, Texas, an historic house named after its former owners. Oge House is on the river with only the well-known river walk between it and the San Antonio River.

Named after the wife of the first owner of Oge House, this was our room there for two nights while we stayed in San Antonio, Texas.