Southwestern Room

Originally built about 1750 during the last expansion period of Mission San Antonio de Valero, this room formed the southwest corner of the complex and served as a carpenter's shop for the Mission Indian community. In 1785, it was granted to Don Pedro de Los Angeles Charli as a reward for his faithful service to the Mission, and his heirs continued to occupy it after the secularization of the Mission in 1793. His daughter, Conception Charli y Losoya, was forced to give it up in 1835 for construction of the Mission's defenses, then called the Alamo. During the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, the largest cannon of the Texan defenders was fired from a platform above this room. Her son Toribio Losoya, serving with other members of Juan Seguin's Mexican Volunteer Company, was killed defending the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

San Antonio, Texas · United States