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Texas
| Architecture
TEXAS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION"Don't
just stand there, preserve something!" |
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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 behind
them. |
| History
On The Brink Of Extinction by Dana Goolsby
1-1-11
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. |
| | Unveiling
in San Antonio
Bronze Goes Green without Verdigris
Bexar County Triumphs
Over Vandals
by Terry JeansonSaving
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 |
| | Zedler's
Mills
Photos Courtesy Justin Parson, Sarah Reveley, and Chia-Wei Wang
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| | Courthouse
Savior
by Terry Jeanson
Persistence and Tenacity Preserves Blanco
Landmark
JoNell Haas and The 1885 former Blanco County courthouse |
| | 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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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
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." |
| 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 |
| | 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 courtesy Robin Jett |
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 façadesTemple
- Santa Fe Depot Railroad and Heritage Museum New
Braunfels Faust Street Bridge c.1887 over the Guadalupe River.Honey
Grove pocket parkRestoring
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." |
Preservation
/ Restoration Outside of Texas |
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