Around Town: Drury Plaza Hotel - A Downtown Jewel from Rick Drury and Drury Southwest
"It glows. It really does. The lobby of the newly opened Drury Plaza Hotel, renovated from 1929 architectural grande dame the Alamo National Bank building, is so dripping in brass, bronze, gold leaf, stained glass, marble and pure sunshine, it feels more like a cave of buried treasure than an austere center of finance. The jaw dropping starts right at the Commerce Street entrance, an enclosed foyer of intricately wrought brass, crowned with a jewel-toned stained glass window depicting the Alamo. At the sweeping opposite end of the room, a swinging ‘60s-era brass circular staircase leads up to a mezzanine-level bar. In between is a..."
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