May 16, 2017
The movie begins in West Texas on a rusty deck overlooking the boggling beige immensity of the Chihuahuan Desert lavender…
Kyle Depot, Kyle
First National Bank, Stephenville Quimby McCoy Preservation Architecture
Seventh Generation Design and Bender Wells Clark Design
Barn at Sam Rayburn House SHS, Bonham
Hillcrest Cemetery, Canton
John S. Harrison House,* Selma
Clayton&Little Architects
Donkey Barn in Brackenridge Park, San Antonio Speegle & KIM-Davis Architecture
Mulkey Theatre,* Clarendon Playa Design Studio
Hendley Building,* Galveston Robert Robinowitz
Barker-Huebinger Rock House,* Sutherland Springs
Medina River Dam at Landmark Inn SHS, Castroville
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Recognition
Volume 67, Issue 3 - Sacred/Profane
May / Jun 2017
Preservation Texas Honor Awards
On February 27, Preservation Texas presented its 2017 Honor Awards to 18 historic restoration and rehabilitation projects at a ceremony at the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco. The awardees represent successful efforts to save irreplaceable and authentic endangered historic places in the state. Ten of the recipients (*) are buildings that were previously on the organization’s Most Endangered Places list and have since been saved.
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