Dear Friends and Media, As you know, the Texas Historical Commission (THC) wrote to the City on November 10 asking for opinions from the Historic Landmark Commission (HLC) and the…
Dear Friends and Media, Texas State Sen. Jose Rodriguez’s term of office ended at 12:00pm, a few minutes ago. Since historic preservation and heritage tourism have always been among his…
Dear Friends and Media, Moments ago, the City’s Historic Landmark Commission voted 6-0 to support the County’s nomination of Downtown El Paso–including all 13 “arena footprint” properties–to become a National…
Dear Friends and Media: First, a point of clarification. It was Dee Margo who sent the letter to the Texas Historical Commission on December 23 (shared yesterday). There is no…
Dear Friends and Media, Today in Executive Session under item EX4, the City Council discussed the request by the Texas Historical Commission for an opinion from the City regarding the…
Dear Friends, Hardy Heck Moore and Associates, headquartered in Austin, has completed its first draft narrative for the proposed National Register Historic District for the Segundo Barrio. There is now…
Dear Friends and Media, Rutgers University and the National Park Service recently released their annual report on the impact of the federal historic tax credit (HTC) across our country. See…
Dear Friends and Media, Please see the attached news release announcing our press conference Thursday morning at 11:00am at Father Pinto Plaza. You can view our mission and committee membership…
Dear Friends and Media, I am pleased to report that the Samaniego Building, designed by Trost & Trost and completed in 1907 at a cost of $20,000, has been rehabilitated…
Dear Friends, Evan Thompson, Executive Director of Preservation Texas, and I will join hosts Jackson Polk and Melissa Sargent for a discussion of the national historic districts that will soon…
