Rena Maverick Green (February 10, 1874 – November 29, 1962) was an artist, a suffragist and a co-founder of the San Antonio Conservation Society.
Green helped preserve the Spanish Governor's Palace and the San Antonio River Walk.
[6] In 1896, George Madison and Mary Elizabeth Maverick and their six children moved to San Antonio.
She studied with Charles Martin and Maurice Stern in Provincetown, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California.
In 1924, she courted the State Parks Board and Governor Pat Neff with a personal tour and a chapter-sponsored dinner.
[9] She received advice from California conservationist Charles Fletcher Lummis on how to purchase and preserve the missions.
[14][15] SACS also purchased the "Huisache Bowl" gravel pit adjoining Mission San José, and the WPA transformed it into an amphitheater.
In 1946, she led SACS into a successful campaign to save San Pedro Park from being turned into a college campus.
Mahncke Park was likewise saved by Green and SACS from redevelopment into the site of an office building.
The park was originally created when her grandfather Samuel Augustus Maverick deeded his land to the city upon his death.