Historic Preservation
In 2019 I wrote a post on why I love my historic neighborhood. This week has made a lot of us realize what we don’t love about them. When I bought my home in 1990, Hollywood Heights had just become a conservation district. I had no idea what that meant for a homeowner, and neither…
In honor of Black History Month, we asked David Preziosi, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas to tell us about one of the best success stories in our city. By David Preziosi, FAICP The stately Beaux-Arts style building with classical ornamentation at the corner of Elm and Good Latimer Streets in Deep Ellum is one of…
If you are interested in historic preservation in our city and state, you don’t want to miss the Real Places Conference hosted by The Texas Historical Commission (THC) and presented by Phoenix 1 Restoration and Construction. This is the most important statewide preservation conference in Texas and it’s taking place this week. “Historic Preservation provides…
Why is historic preservation so difficult in our fair city? Why are historic homes demolished? Why doesn’t Dallas value our heritage more? These are some of the questions Ron Siebler and Mark Birnbaum hope to answer in their upcoming documentary, Why We Don’t: The Never-Ending Loss of Our Structural Heritage. Siebler is the president of…
If you live in West Dallas or the Historic Tenth Street District, the City of Dallas is trying to make your life easier. “Trying” is the key word, of course. They released a new program on December 11 called the Targeted Rehab Program (TRP). The focus of TRP is to help preserve and maintain homes…
