2023 Good Brick Award winners selected by Preservation Houston
Preservation Houston will mark its 45th anniversary at its annual Cornerstone Dinner on March 5, when the group, dedicated to preserving and educating the public about historic homes and structures, will honor five homeowners and a developer who adapted two large older buildings into mixed-use developments along with the group’s founding members.
Tickets to the Cornerstone dinner, held at the River Oaks Country Club, start at $500 per person and can be purchased at preservationhouston.org/ cornerstone. Proceeds benefit the group’s community service and public education programs.
The group’s President’s Award will honor the volunteers who founded the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance in 1978, now Preservation Houston. Founding members Betty Trapp Chapman and Beverly Pennington will accept the award on behalf of the original group.
The Martha Peterson Award, named for a longtime volunteer, will be given to the Fraga family. They are the descendants of Lupe and Joe Z. Fraga and renovated the family’s historic Craftsman-style home in the East End. It was the wish of Lupe Fraga, the current owners’ mother, who before she died asked that her home be open to families of patients visiting Houston for medical treatment.
Good Brick Award winners are:
Lovett Commercial, which will receive two Good Brick Awards. One is for turning the 1962 Barbara Jordan Post Office in downtown into the mixeduse development Post Houston. It also turned a former Houston Post building built in 1955 in the East End into Printhouse, another mixed-use development.
Jacquelyn and Collin Cox will receive an award for restoring their Colonial Revivalstyle house in River Oaks, the 1939 Alfred E. Reidel House, which is a City of Houston Protected Landmark.
Catherine and Matt Matthews will receive an award for rehabilitating the former Christ Church Cathedral deanery, also in River Oaks, which was built in 1935.
Divya Pande and Nakul Gupta will receive an award for rehabilitating their 1910 Craftsman-style home in the Avondale East Historic District.
Jean and William Frazer will receive an award for restoring their modernist home built in 1968 in the Memorial area.