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Winter 2016 H Volume 20 No SAVING THE GOOD STUFF Winter 2016 h Volume 20 No. 1 h President’s Message h Alyson McGee I hope our members, friends and supporters all had a cultural foundations of the Nation peaceful holiday season and a very happy new year! The should be preserved as a living part coming year is an important one for the historic preservation of our community life and community as we will be celebrating and commemorating development in order to give a the 50th anniversary of the passage of the National Historic sense of orientation to the American Preservation Act (NHPA). Although it impacts all of the United people…” It established a national States, this important legislation is particularly meaningful to preservation program that includes: Texans as it was President Lyndon B. Johnson who signed it • The National Register of Historic Places. This list into law on October 15, 1966. identifies and documents significant historic and cultural sites to aid in their preservation. Austin has In the 1950’s, with the post-World War II economic and nearly 200 individual properties and 20 districts listed population boom, our country was experiencing unprecedented on the National Register of Historic Places, including destruction of historic sites and places as “modern” the Old West Austin National Register District - the development and “urban renewal” swept across the country. largest in Texas with more than 3,500 properties. The loss of our built heritage became of such concern that • State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPO). Every state the United States Conference of Mayors established a Special has a designated SHPO to provide guidance and Committee on Historic Preservation to urge federal and state regulatory review for federal agencies. In Texas the governments to consider the impact their actions were having Texas Historical Commission, housed in Austin, serves on historic places – actions that were leading to the permanent as our SHPO. loss of our heritage. That Committee issued the report “With • The Section 106 Review Process. This provision of the Heritage So Rich,” with a foreword, written by then First Lady law requires the federal government to take into of the United States Lady Bird Johnson, urging action to slow account the impact of its actions (funding, permitting, the pressure of destruction that was taking place. From that construction, etc.) on historic and cultural resources, report came the landmark NHPA legislation that still guides and provides for public input on those activities. historic preservation activities at all levels of government and in communities across the nation, and which we celebrate • The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP). this year. Appointed by the President, the ACHP advises the President and Congress, and collaborates with other The NHPA states that, “The Congress finds and declares that… entities, on historic preservation issues. the spirit and direction of the Nation are founded upon and reflected in its historic heritage [and]… the historical and Continued on page 3 SAVE THE DATE 2015-2016 Board of Directors h OFFICERS h Alyson McGee, President Vanessa McElwrath, 2nd VP John Donisi, President-Elect Kim McKnight, Secretary Ken Johnson, 1st VP Clay Cary, Treasurer Shelly Hemingson, Immediate Past President Inherit Austin’s 14th Annual Bratten Thomason, Committee Member Easter Egg Hunt h DIRECTORS h Paula Aaronson Ann S. Graham Andrea McWilliams The Contemporary Austin - Clayton Bullock Chris Hendel Tom Stacy Laguna Gloria Richard Craig Richard Kooris Lance Stumpf Saturday, March 26, 2016 Sam Davidson Tim League Caroline Wright Lauren Smith Ford Dennis McDaniel 8 am to 10 am h h Don’t miss this beloved annual VOTING REPRESENTATIVES Michael Holleran, UT School of Architecture event with egg hunts and activites for children of all ages. Charles Peveto, Austin History Center Event will be held rain or shine. Sorry, no refunds. All tickets will be Michelle Slattery, Inherit Austin held at Will Call at the event. Limited tickets available, with sales Mike Ward, Pioneer Farms open first to Inherit Austin members. h W ATERLOO SOCIETY h For info on sponsorships, tickets, and event details, Paula & Lee Aaronson Jennifer & Chad Marsh visit preservationaustin.org. h Ann Griffith Ash Peter Flagg Maxson & Architects Clayton & Little (Emily Little) John C. R. Taylor, III Booth Heritage Foundation McBee Family Foundation F ollow Us on (Suzanne & David Booth) Jill & Dennis McDaniel Ann Butler Terry McDaniel & Co. Investment Meta Butler Council (Ken Turlington) Mimi & Robert Buzbee Vanessa & Mac McElwrath to stay up to date on Cedar Door Real Estate Maureen & Michael Metteauer (Shelly & Todd Hemingson) Carole & George Nalle, III the latest preservation Karen & Clay Cary Carol Nelson issues and events in our Danette Chimenti NEST Modern community! Richard Craig Julie & Patrick Oles, Jr. Tim Cuppett & Marco Rini Charles Aubrey Smith, Jr. Mandy Dealey & David Herndon The Stiles Real Estate Agency Kim & Jim DeCosmo (Kim McKnight & Peter Stiles) h STAFF Cissie & Dillon Ferguson Charles Stuart Regan & Billy Gammon Lin Team & Donelson Kate Singleton, Executive Director Clarke Heidrick Bratten Thomason & Randy Dalton Lindsey Derrington, Programs Coordinator Gina Hinojosa & John Donisi Kathie Tovo & Tom Hurt Mailing Address - P.O. Box 2113, Austin, TX 78768 Ann S. Graham & Arlen Johnson David Wilson Garden Design, Inc. Physical Address - 500 Chicon, Austin, 78702 Elizabeth & Tom Granger Patricia & Bill Winston Ph. (512) 474-5198 Fax (512) 476-8687 Jeff Harper & Mark Seeger Eva & Marvin Womack [email protected] www.preservationaustin.org Courtney & Clark Hoffman 2 Winter 2016 President’s Message, continued from page 1 unprecedented growth, development and urban “renewal”. We also just completed “The historical and cultural • The Secretary of the Interior’s our first year under the 10-1 City Council foundations of the Nation Standards for the Treatment of system and have experienced greater should be preserved as a Historic Properties (SOI). opposition to preservation protections living part of our community The NHPA called for establishing from some of the new Council members life and development in order a set of standards to guide work and their appointees to the Historic to give a sense of orientation on historic properties. This led Landmark Commission than we’ve seen to the American people… to the adoption of the SOI, which for many years, maybe decades. the preservation of this are applied to preservation irreplaceable heritage is in the projects across the nation, Last year the City of Austin’s historic public interest so that its vital including, by code, projects preservation office reviewed and released permitted in the City of Austin. more than 700 total demolition permits legacy of cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, • Certified Local Government (CLG) and 564 partial demolition permits for program. Later through an residential properties, including 61 total economic, and energy amendment the CLG program demolition permits in National Register benefits will be maintained was added to the NHPA to Historic Districts. With only 2.5% of our and enriched for future assist local governments remaining residential buildings having generations of Americans.” in carrying out their preservation been built before WWII, this represents – NHPA 1966. activities. The City of Austin has a significant loss of our oldest housing stock. Additionally, our “newer” housing CLG status and has been a Given Texas’ close association with the built during 1950s and 1960s, when the recipient of numerous CLG NHPA, through Lyndon and Lady Bird NHPA was being developed, are now grants awarded from federal Johnson’s key involvement in the act’s over 50 years old, making them eligible funds passed through the Texas passage, and increasing development for listing in the National Register of Historical Commission. pressures in Austin, I urge Austinite’s in Historic Places and as local landmarks the coming year to pay attention to the In 1974 – eight years after passage of the and districts. Neighborhoods built irreplaceable historic buildings, sites and NHPA – the City of Austin was experiencing during this time, from Balcones to neighborhoods that make our City special, an increasing loss of its built heritage and Barton Hills, represent an important to take notice of those that are being City Council added the first language to time in our nation’s and city’s history, irreplaceably lost every day, and to support our land use code to allow for protection and are being impacted by the same Preservation Austin in our continuing of historic properties. That ordinance development pressures affecting our efforts to educate about and advocate stated that, “The City Council hereby pre-WWII neighborhoods. Preservation for “Saving the Good Stuff” for future finds and declares as a matter of public Austin honored this heritage with our generations. policy that the protection, enhancement, “Atomic Austin” and “Austin 1964” Historic preservation and use of historic landmarks Homes Tours in 2008 and 2014. This year’s For more information on Preservation 50 is a public necessity and is required in tour returns to the midcentury era with commemorative activities please visit the interest of the culture, prosperity, “Austin’s Post-War Boom,” a celebration http://preservation50.org education and general welfare of of historic homes in the Crestview, the people.” Brentwood, and Allandale neighborhoods. Sincerely, Mark your calendars for Saturday, April The irony of our commemorating the 30, and keep an eye out for volunteer and NHPA at this time is that it feels like sponsorship opportunities in the coming Austin is again facing what our nation weeks. Alyson McGee and community did in the 1950-1970s – h PRETI SERVA ON AUSTIN 3 How You Can Help Preservation Austin on Social Media by Brandon Tucker s a member of Preservation Austin, A you possess a passion for all things worth saving in this great city. And the fact is, there are many people out there like us with an itch for saving the good stuff, but maybe they just don’t know it.
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