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.
Documentary Arts, Inc. will use its grant for an album of song covers showcasing the work of legendary Deep Ellum musicians, including blues pioneers Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Willie Johnson.
Sugarloaf Pictures in partnership with Austin Film Society was awarded funding for the full-length documentary film, "Tonkawa: They All Stay Together."
THF visits three history museums on Texas' gulf coast.
Meet the group breathing new life into historic Dallas cemeteries by restoring them to native Blackland Prairie.
Catch up with Texas Historical Foundation's Spring 2024 grantees! THF meets with Friends of the Tye Preston Library, Canyon Lake and Castro Colonies Heritage Association, Castroville.
The 1895 | 140 W. Cameron Ave, Rockdale | 10:30 a.m. March 29
A presentation of THF's grant to Vision Historic Preservation Foundation is planned for March 29, 2024. Grant supports the Rockdale Sesquicentennial event, 12 days of culture, heritage, and history celebrations in downtown Rockdale this July hosted by Vision Historic.
Two Houston groups receive Texas Historical Foundation funding for historic preservation projects.
Waco's Dr Pepper Museum receives Texas Historical Foundation grant in support of exhibition space updates.
Dr Pepper Museum┃300 S. 5th St., Waco┃December 18, 2023
Latinos in Heritage Conservation widen the circle of participants in historic preservation with Latinx Preservation Toolkit series.
THF to hold presentation of recent grant to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas November 6 in Washington, D.C. The grant supports DRT's efforts to erect a marker in the U.S. capitol honoring the diplomatic legation from the Republic of Texas.
Presentations of grants to the Texas Energy Museum, Doss Heritage & Culture Center, and Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center.
San Antonio-based nonprofits with projects supported by Texas Historical Foundation grants; the Texas Heritage Project of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions develops exhibits from their archive, while Mexican American Civil Rights Institute pursues National Register of Historic Places inclusion for a Corpus Christi home associated with landmark civil rights case.
Texans Take Flight: THF presents grants to Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, and Braniff Airways Foundation, Dallas.
McFarland House | 3805 Red River St, Austin | August 22, 2023
Preservation Austin recognized with THF grant for restoration efforts at Austin's beloved McFarland House.
Plano Masonic Lodge | 1414 J Ave, Plano | July 28, 2023
NTMHM&L receive grant in support of preservation work at one of Plano's oldest cemeteries.
Yturri-Edmunds House Museum | 128 Mission Rd, San Antonio | August 3, 2023
Texas Historical Foundation presents grant to San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation in support of their preservation efforts at the 1860 Yturri-Edmonds House.
Grant presented to the Orange Show Foundation in support of their efforts to restore and maintain Houston's The Orange Show-- plus, a history of how the beloved outsider art installation came to be.
