Former bank in San Antonio finds new worth as distillery
SAN ANTONIO—Greg Shue compares designing the recently opened Maverick Whiskey Distillery to fit into the 101-year-old Lockwood National Bank building on Broadway in downtown San Antonio to doing a jigsaw puzzle. Or fitting a square peg into a round hole.
In other words, difficult.
The San Antonio Express-News reports owner Ken Maverick was more optimistic with Shue.
Shue, managing partner of Open Studio Architecture, remembers his first conversation with Maverick about the project. "I said to Ken, 'You mean you want to build a distillery on three tight floors in this tiny, historic building in downtown San Antonio where you'll have delivery issues?' He looked at me and said, 'That seems like a wonderful design challenge.' "
The Maverick Whiskey Distillery opened in July, but its roots stretch back to before 1836 and the fall of the Alamo when family patriarch Sam Maverick sold whiskey brought to Texas from his family's distillery in the Carolinas. Meanwhile, the building at 115 Broadway that houses the distillery, restaurant, bar and event space has a history that's just as colorful.
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