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Texas
Historic Preservation
"Don't just
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Five
Buildings of San Antonio
4-1-08
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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Zedler's
Mills 11-20-07
Photos Courtesy Justin Parson, Sarah Reveley, and Chia-Wei Wang
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Courthouse
Savior 11-8-07
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 11-12-05
Fine old-world craftsmanship
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The
Tyler Depot
by Bob Bowman 10-31-05
On June 4, 2005, a city-wide celebration unveiled a plaque
that establishes the depot as a National Historic Landmark.
Haunting
Photos of the Baker Hotel
10-19-05
Courtesy of Jason Grant & The Nostalgic Glass
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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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Perfect
Worlds by Dwight Young 2-1-05
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 1-12-05
"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 2-14-04
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 The DeMorse house courtesy Robin Jett
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- Granbury
Opera House by Joan Upton Hall 11-16-04
"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 11-6-04
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 10-18-04
- Hill
County Courthouse Text & photos by Sam Fenstermacher
7-12-04
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. The courthouse
was a wooden frame structure and the clock tower and wooden truss
supported interior collapsed onto the basement. The massive iron
staircases survived, but I don't think much of anything else could
be salvaged. It's a testament to the determination of the residents
and elected officials of Hill County that they were able to rebuild
their beloved courthouse during the rest of the decade of the
1990's. Today, the Hill County Courthouse is again perfect in
nearly every detail. more
- Kyle:
Growing with Thought by Veranda Mansard 4-19-04
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 12/1/03
Faded reminders of (usually) defunct products painted on the fronts
and sides of buildings in small towns and large cities all across
the country...
- Saving
Sallie's Home by Bob Bowman 8/03
The proud old house looked as if it might fall down. Turkey vultures
perched on its roof like sinister messengers of doom.
- Outhouses
by Bob Bowman 6/03
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.
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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 11-24-04
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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