The grant supports Phase 1 of the Preservation Texas Institute Operations and Business Plan, laying the groundwork for a world-class preservation field school in Central Texas. The Institute will serve as a statewide hub for preservation education and training, based at the former Trinity University/Westminster College Campus in Tehuacana.
Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum received funding for its Cowboy Camp, an annual summer youth program. The museum also earned 3rd place at the 2024 Duda Preservation Awards in Dallas for its preservation work in Cuero and South Texas. The funds will go towards renovations to their building.
The Flower Hill Center earned second place in the 2024 Duda Preservation Awards for its work at the Smoot Homestead, a significant site in Austin's history. The award funds will support stabilization efforts for the main house, which will become a historic house museum.
Sugarloaf Productions was awarded funds for “Tonkawa: They All Stay Together”, a documentary film exploring the tribe's past and present cultural traditions as they return to their ancestral Red Mountain home in Central Texas.
The Texas Fluted Point Survey is the recipient of THF's 2025 Annual Grant. The project documents and maps Clovis and Folsom projectile points found in Texas to expand our understanding of our state's earliest inhabitants.
Gonzales Main Street received funding for its "Legacy In Lights" film, an immersive retelling of the 1835 Battle of Gonzales. Held regularly, the facade of the Gonzales Memorial Museum is transformed into the story of the famous battle, with narrations based on historical records.
The San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation received a grant in support of restorations to the 1870 Anton Wulff House, an Italianate-style mansion in the King William Historic District south of downtown San Antonio.
"The Stones Are Speaking" documentary film, with the help of the Williamson Museum, received funding to bring the film to a broader audience, including college anthropology and archeology students, professional and avocational groups, and museums.
he grant assists with funding to restore the historically designated 1910 Archer County Jail, future home of the Archer County Museum and Arts Center. This phase of work will include restoring the roof, windows, and doors to ensure the building is weather-tight.
Funding is for an exhibit and public history event to tell the story of Colegio Jacinto Trevino, the first Chicano college in the United States, founded in South Texas in 1970.
THF's grant funds state-of-the-art archival storage equipment for the Dr Pepper Museum's expansive collections.
buildingcommunityWORKSHOP's grant was awarded to create a series of 3-D models depicting Dallas' historically black 10th Street Historic District at critical junctures in its history.
Funds were allocated for cleaning, replacing damaged wood, and repainting the original shiplap siding of the Folk Victorian home built in 1899.
Funding is for the museum's "History Alive" program, which has grown significantly in the last two years, and is used by many area schools as a resource for teachers from Pre-K to 12th grade.
The Tom Lea Institute will use its grant to digitize curriculum based on its collection of Texas artist Tom Lea. See photos from the presentation below.
THF presented Friends of the THC with a grant to support scholarships at Real Places 2025, the state’s premier interdisciplinary preservation conference.
The Texas Heritage Project of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSM) will use grant funds to continue building interactive digital maps illuminating the cumulative history of First Peoples from the 1600s onward in present-day South Texas and Northern Mexico.
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation used funding from its 2024 grant to restore the exterior of the Point Bolivar lighthouse to its historic condition and color.
Dallas Historical Society will use the funding to pilot their Republic of Texas Card Game, distributing 500 decks of this educational tool to Texas classrooms at no cost.
Rancho Alegre, Austin, was awarded a grant to prepare hundreds of hours of oral histories with Tejano and Conjunto musicians for public release. Since their founding in 2008, Rancho Alegre has brought national notice to these beloved but overlooked music movements with distinctly Texan roots.
Nocona Society for History & Culture, also known as the Tales 'n Trails Museum, received a grant for an archeology consultant to evaluate locally sourced Lithic artifacts from collections that have been in Museum storage for the past twenty years.
Grant funding will assist with the National Register of Historic Places ascension for the First Independent Baptist Church, originally formed by emancipated congregants in Corsicana in 1886. National Register inclusion will allow this endangered site to participate in Preservation Texas' Texas Rural African American Heritage project, providing funding and technical assistance in its restoration.
Grant funding will assist with the National Register of Historic Places ascension for the Wesley Chapel AME Church, originally established in 1816 to serve enslaved congregants in rural Corsicana. National Register inclusion will allow this endangered site to participate in Preservation Texas' Texas Rural African American Heritage project, providing funding and technical assistance in its restoration.
Friends of the Bristol Schoolhouse used their grant funds for an ADA-complaint ramp in front of the building.
The grant supports Sam Houston Memorial Museum & Republic of Texas Presidential Library Collections' digital artifact repository.
