Texas' Most Endangered Places List and Honor Awards 2023

Preservation Texas calls for nominations

SAN MARCOS — Preservation Texas has announced that nominations for its annual Texas's Most Endangered Places List and biennial Preservation Texas Honor Awards are now open.

The Texas's Most Endangered Places list is a signature program of Preservation Texas which has spotlighted imperiled historic places across Texas since 2004. The list is designed to draw statewide attention to Endangered Places so that local advocates can build momentum toward their protection. Preservation Texas can also provide technical assistance and letters of support for sites that have been included on the list. Preservation Texas welcomes nominations that represent a range of preservation threats. Of particular interest in 2023 are nominations that seek to address threats to: Sites associated with indigenous history. Properties associated with Texas artists and writers. Brutalist architecture. Small town cotton gins, mills, or similar industrial sites. Nineteenth and 20th century sharecropping sites (dwellings, farmsteads, communities). Sites associated with Women's Suffrage in Texas. Sites in the Big Spring-midland-odessa region.

To nominate an Endangered Place, visit Preservationtexas.org/ MEP2023. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. Friday April 14. The final list will be announced on May 11 in Mineral Wells at the North Central Texas Regional Preservation Summit.

In addition, Preservation Texas is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Honor Awards until May 31. Presented every other year, Preservation Texas Honor Awards recognize outstanding efforts to restore, preserve, rehabilitate or reconstruct historic places that have been individually included on the Texas's Most Endangered Places list or relate to a previous thematic listing.

Partially-completed projects are ineligible as well as projects completed more than three years ago.

The thematic categories for which preserved, restored, or rehabilitated properties are eligible for 2023 Honor Awards are: Adobes of Presidio County. Barns. Boerne Stage Corridor/ Scenic Loop. Carpenter Gothic Churches. Cemeteries. Civil Rights Sites. Dallas Public School Buildings. Dams. Dance Halls. Gas Stations. Historic Assets of Downtown Austin. Historic Buildings of Rio Grande City. Historic Resources in City Parks. Historic Resources of Dickens County. Historic Resources of the Recent Past. Historically Segregated Mexican-american Public Schools. Iron Bridges. Log Buildings. Mid-century Modern Sacred Places. Painted Advertising Signs aka “Ghost Signs.” Railroad Depots. Rural African-american

Heritage Sites. Rural School Buildings. Small Town Bank Buildings. Small Town Municipal Buildings. Small Town Theaters and Opera Houses. Working Class Neighborhoods.

To nominate a project, visit Preservationtexas.org/honorawards. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday May 31. Honor Award winners will be announced later this summer.

Founded in 1985, Preservation Texas is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to offering a range of statewide preservation programs. Preservation Texas protects historic places through direct investments, grants, and by empowering people and organizations through advocacy, collaboration and education. Learn more at Preservationtexas.org.