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Texas
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TEXAS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
"Don't just
stand there, preserve something!" |
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SPECIAL
SUBJECTS:
Texas
Courthouses
Past and Present
Demolished or Restored
Vintage and contemporary photos and postcards
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Texas
Centennial Index by Sarah Reveley
During the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration, the state built memorial
museums, restored historical structures, improved parks, erected
statues of important Texans, and installed over 1,000 historical
markers.
This ongoing project
will examine the extant Centennial projects and include the stories
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Zedler's
Mills
Photos Courtesy Sarah Reveley, Justin Parson, Barclay Gibson and
Chia-Wei Wang
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Sebastopol
House by Mike Cox
A limecrete Structure in Seguin
National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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History
On The Brink Of Extinction by Dana Goolsby
Biological minor heirs to the property, as well as their guardian
would like the property to be obtained by the Historical Commission
in order to salvage their family history, as well as some of East
Texas' oldest history.
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Unveiling
in San Antonio
Bronze Goes Green without Verdigris
Bexar County Triumphs Over Vandals
by Terry Jeanson
Saving
Sallie's Home by Bob Bowman
The proud old house looked as if it might fall down. Turkey vultures
perched on its roof like sinister messengers of doom.
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Five
Buildings of San Antonio
The Star, the Pig, the Dealership, the Icehouse and the Chinese
Grocery
Photos by Mel Brown, Sarah Reveley and Jacinto Guevara
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Courthouse
Savior
by Terry Jeanson
Persistence and Tenacity Preserves Blanco Landmark
JoNell Haas and The 1885 former Blanco County courthouse
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The
Gus Cranz Mansion, Schulenburg, Texas, ca 1874
by John Troesser. Photos courtesy Roy Saffel & the Cranz Family
Fine old-world craftsmanship
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Little
Tee Pee(s) on the Prairie by Johnny Stucco
Photos courtesty Ken Rudine & Blue Dolphin Investments LP
"This is the biggest news in Wharton County in years. It's
bigger than the night they burned the wooden sidewalks on the square
and certainly bigger than the night they cut down the sycamore trees
on the courthouse lawn. It might even be considered a tie with the
time Sheriff Buckshot Lane burned the state highway bridge."
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Worlds by Dwight Young
Donna Reed and the Granada Theater in Plainview, Texas
"... I’m glad they’re memorializing Donna Reed by restoring
an old movie house. Escape is essential now and then, but it’s hard
to find it in a shoebox-sized theater with a name like Asphalt Gardens
Shopping Plaza Multiplex Cinema 17. We need to save lots of Palaces
and Rialtos and Majestics – and Granadas...."
Sagging
Symbols by Dwight Young
"In the midst of the vast, windswept West Texas landscape,
the courthouse was the architectural paperweight that kept the town
from blowing away. ... [It] offered tangible evidence that our town
was here to stay and that the residents were a civilized lot who
knew what a public building ought to look like."
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Buildings
inside Buildings
by John Troesser 4-21-04
Little Church in the Warehouse (Fort Worth)
The Siddon-Barnes Log Cabin, Chico, Texas
History in the Hotel Lobby, Austin, Texas
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The
Editor's Home by Bob Bowman
The Red River County Historical Society has embarked on a $1 million
fundraising effort that could lead to the restoration of the early
Greek revival home as an educational museum of early Texas architecture
and the remarkable life of Colonel DeMorse. more
Photo courtesy Robin Jett
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Granbury
Opera House by Joan Upton Hall
"Inside, period chandeliers and wall sconces light the auditorium.
Exposed stone walls, original doors, molding, white-painted balcony
rails, and authentic needlepoint seats evoke the 1886 atmosphere
of the theatre’s birth..."
"Its preservation “just in the nick of time” was perhaps what
united the town."
Austin's
Moonlight Towers by Johnny Stucco
Officially recognized as state archeological landmarks in 1970
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976
"... In the entire United States, only Austin has surviving
examples of this type of lighting system that was once popular in
many U.S. cities during the late 1800s....." more
Ritz
Theatre in Wellington
Hill
County Courthouse Text & photos by Sam Fenstermacher
The Hill County Courthouse was destroyed by fire on the night of
January 1, 1993. The destruction was nearly complete. All that remained
standing was the four limestone walls... Today, the Hill County
Courthouse is again perfect in nearly every detail. more
Saving
Sallie's Home by Bob Bowman
The proud old house looked as if it might fall down. Turkey vultures
perched on its roof like sinister messengers of doom.
Kyle:
Growing with Thought by Veranda Mansard
With all that's going wrong in the world of development - it's nice
to know that something is going right.
Ghost
Signs in Texas by John Troesser
Faded reminders of (usually) defunct products painted on the fronts
and sides of buildings in small towns and large cities all across
the country...
Outhouses
by Bob Bowman
The old-fashioned outhouse, which served thousands of rural East
Texans before indoor bathrooms became affordable, has again become
fashionable, but not as a working privy. It is showing up in historical
displays, as art and in advertisements.
Circuit Board Fragments on Pine Needles - February 2003
Personal Observations on the Search for Columbia Debris By Gary
McK
Gary McKee's observations of the search in East Texas for debris
from the Space Shuttle Columbia. It's the type of quality first-hand
reporting that seldom gets into print.
The
Bathhouse that Wouldn't Die
Reader's Comment : I enjoyed your piece on the Luling Bathhouse.
I had no idea all that history was there. - Chandra Beal, author
of "Splash Across Texas"
Temple,
Texas downtown linked façades
Temple
- Santa Fe Depot Railroad and Heritage Museum
New
Braunfels Faust Street Bridge c.1887 over the Guadalupe River.
Honey
Grove pocket park
Restoring
Two Old Reds by Bob Bowman
"A couple of grand old ladies, both with identical
nicknames, are getting facelifts on different ends of East Texas.........."
Paper
Cuts & County Lines - Adopt-A-Map
A
Bridge Too Near
The
Buda Taxi
Preserved
Building; Fresh Food - The Collin County Prison as Restaurant
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Hollywood
Soot by Audrey A. Herbrich
Photos by Boyd Photography, La Grange
The fire in La Granger - "The north wind—unusually strong this
March—carried the voices from those gathered below to me, and I
could hear their whispers and gasps. And it wasn’t the ablaze Botts
Title Company that trumped the conversation, or the equally ablaze
China Inn Restaurant, Bertie’s Barbershop, or the income tax lawyer’s
office. No, it was the Cozy Theater, slotted between Bertie’s on
the left and the JC Penney catalog store on the right."
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Preservation
/ Restoration Outside of Texas
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