No, the Tower of the Americas is 622 feet to the roof. The 750 foot height is the height to the top of the antenna, though, the FCC says it's now 729 feet. I'm not sure if or when they made any changes to the antenna. The tower itself, though, is 622 feet to the roof. The top floor, which is where the observation deck is, is at 579 feet. The restaurant level is at 560 feet.
There seemed to be some sort of height barrier in San Antonio going back years where a lot of the buildings were 250 feet to 280 feet. I'm talking about buildings from the late 1920s through the 80s. Some of those may have been because of the river. There are a lot of discrepancies when it comes to some of San Antonio's buildings. One height I saw going back years was 375 feet for the Nix Professional Building, but there's no way it's that tall either. That height was on the same list as the Alamo National Building being listed as 280 feet, and the two are pretty close in height. I can only measure the Nix to 289 feet. It's possible the 375 foot height may have been to the top of the flagpole, which seems to be around 100 feet tall. With them planning to turn it into apartments, there are bound to be new building elevations of it out there somewhere. Does anyone have a link to the Historic Design Commission page that showed the meetings with presentations made to them? Those sometimes had plans attached. I lost my link since they're on another computer.
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