“Very highly skilled artisans would have to be involved in the reconstruction of this building. A bottling factory stood just behind the house, which is west of San Pedro Creek. Laredo Street appears in the left background of this circa-1920s photo of the workers at Rodriguez Bottling. Pablo Garza, structural engineer with the river authority, told the commission the house “appears to be stable, but it’s not.” It has missing mortar, sagging or cascading masonry, cracks and movement in its load-bearing walls and at least one interior wall “in danger of collapse.” He has estimated it would cost $773,500 to repair and restore the structure. The city’s Historic and Design Review Commission last week voted 5-2 against the river authority’s proposal to demolish the circa-1890 A.W. On : One of the last remnants of ‘Laredito’ deemed unsafeīut for now, the house will remain.
We always like to remember the best when something has to leave, so that’s what I’ll have to do.” “I see the house as the heartbeat for a family. “When I close my eyes, I don’t see a long-forgotten, neglected beautiful piece of history,” said Velasquez, 53, who expects the house eventually will be razed. Gina Velasquez has heard countless stories from her father and his three siblings about their childhood home at 836 S.
But descendants of the Rodriguez-De Leon family see the decaying Victorian structure as a link to “Laredito” - an old neighborhood west of the creek, also once known as the Mexican Quarter or “Mexican downtown.”
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