Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 7:58am
By Tracey Silverman, Texas Historical Commission Planner
Imagine packing your bags and taking five days to visit 13 courthouse gems in Texas. That’s just what staff from the Texas Historical Commission (THC), Preservation Texas and the National Trust for Historic Preservation did starting on January 22 when they visited courthouses in Williamson, Llano, Lampasas, Mills, San Saba, Goliad...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 10:48pm
By Adam Alsobrook, Project Reviewer, Division of Architecture
If you died in the U.S. prior to the 1880s, your family and close friends would typically prepare your body for burial in a simple, six-sided box known as a coffin. However, beginning in the 1850s, professional undertakers began to assume the tasks of preparing a body for burial, including delivering the coffin,...
