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Midtown San AntonioMidtown which borders Hildebrand Avenue to the north, Highway 281 to the east, I-10 to the west and I-35 to the south. 
Midtown features an assortment of neighborhoods ranging from the lower class Beacon Hill to the up-and-coming Five Points to the established upper middle class Monte Vista. Each neighborhood has distinctive housing characteristics, from from Victorian in Beacon Hill to French Eclectic, Neoclassical and Italian Renaissance in Monte Vista.Midtown is one of the most historic areas of metro San Antonio, home to Temple Beth-El, the Pearl Brewery, Trinity University, and neighborhoods such as Five Points, Tobin Hill, Monte Vista, Alta Vista, Beacon Hill, University Hill, and Trinity Heights. San Antonio Conservation Society is preserving these areas. The purpose for which the San Antonio Conservation Society was formed is to preserve and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, places and customs relating to the history of Texas, its natural beauty and all that is admirably distinctive to our State; and by such physical and cultural preservation to keep the history of Texas legible and intact to educate the public, especially the youth of today and tomorrow with knowledge of our inherited regional values. The San Antonio Conservation Society was founded by a group of San Antonio women, led by Emily Edwards and Mary Rowena Maverick Green,qv on March 22, 1924, after the disastrous 1921 flood resulted in flood-control measures that threatened drastic physical changes in old San Antonio. The organization immediately began a program of public education in conservation and preservation, including lectures and history-oriented entertainment. The society was incorporated on July 8, 1925, with the purpose of preserving and encouraging the preservation of buildings, objects, and places related to the history of Texas and its natural beauty; the group has remained active to the present in the purchase, restoration, and operation of historic sites.
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