For a time this hotel was the home of Sam Houston Johnson, younger brother to President Lyndon B.

[2] The Alamo Hotel was also featured, briefly, in the music videos for Rock the Casbah and Pancho and Lefty.

[5] In 1984 the Alamo Hotel was torn down to make way for a 27-story mixed use office-hotel complex called Lamar Financial Plaza which, if built, would have been the second tallest building in Austin at the time.

[12] On April 5, 2023, it was revealed that Kimbal Musk had signed a lease to open up a restaurant in Sixth and Guadalupe.

[14][15] The building's unique angled shape is due to Texas Capitol View Corridors[16][17] (#8, South Lamar at La Casa Drive).