Winter 1992 GHPA Newsletter

For Preservation Newsletter of tfie Greater Mouston Preservation Alliance

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WINTER,

1992

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preservation • • provIsions Anyone who has watched the process of zoning Houston unfold knows of how broadbased the participation has been, and how complex. The Zoning Ordinance that is nearing completion contains these provisions for historic preservation: • A process for designating historic landmarks and districts; • A requirement for developing a conservation plan specific to each district. That plan must include design guidelines tailored to the distinctive characteristics of the district. For instance, design guidelines for a district with a preponderance of Victorian-style architecture will be different from those in a district characterized by Craftsman-era bungalows.

• Empowerment of property owners, City Council, the Planning and Zoning Commission, The Houston Archeological and Historical Commission (HAHC) and the director of the City's Department of Planning and Development to initiate the application; • A process by which applications for certificates of appropriateness for changes to historic landmarks and buildings within historic districts are to be reviewed by HAHC; and • A process by which demolition permits to destroy historic buildings are to be reviewed first by HAHC. • The process of instituting these provisions for preserving the past was, at times, frightening. The recently-formed Real Estate Council, primarily the coalition speaking for developer interests, had been opposed to provisions important to the preservation community. In October, claiming there had not been sufficient public discussion, this group went public with its opposition in a letter to members of the Zoning Strategies Committee.

Their letter recommended that the section of the Zoning Ordinance providing for Historic Districts and Landmarks be deleted "until further study can be made."

Fortunately, preservation values are shared by a number of responsible community leaders and volunteers. Among these "heroes of historic preservation in Houston" are: • David Beale, vice president of GHPA and chair of our Historic Neighborhoods Committee. David, who lives in Westmoreland Place, has devoted hundreds of hours to working with groups from neighborhoods, keeping them informed about happenings in the zoning effort. David took time from his law practice to attend meetings of the Zoning Strategies Committee and to talk with representatives of the conlinued inside

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Lomas and Nettleton Building has a colonnaded banking hall that stretches through the ground floor from Main Street to Fannin. Officials hope to retain this feature.

County considers significance of Lomas and Nettleton Building

By Minnette Boesel During the past several months, Harris County Commissioners have been considering options for the use of the Lomas and Nettleton Building, a.k.a. First National Bank Building. This very significant structure, listed as a contributing building in the Main StreetMarket Square Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places, was Houston's first steel-framed skyscraper.

It has a breathtaking central banking hall occupying most of the first two floors.

Harris County purchased this building in the summer of 1991, intending to rehabilitate it for offices of the County Clerk. However, after analysis, it became apparent that the programmatic requirements for the County Clerk's Office might not work in the Lomas and Nettleton Building. County

officials then began looking at demolition and construction of a replacement building on the same site.

Much to the county's credit, representatives of Houston's preservation community, including Al Davis, Chairman of Harris County Historical Commission; Vicki List, President of GHPA; and I, were invited to discuss the issue and to offer suggestions.

After many months of debate, visual presentations, meetings, etc., all parties involved have worked hard to develop an alternative plan, with the final design configuration still to be determined. The exterior walls and banking hall would be preserved. A connecting building would be built on an adjacent parcel of land to house courtrooms, parking and storage facilities.

Holiday festivities planned for Market Square Park Market Square Park will be site of holiday musical events during the week of December 7 through 12.

Local choirs will perform beginning at noon on weekdays, and from 6:30pM until 9PM the evening of Saturday, Dec. 12.

The park is on the block

in downtown Houston bounded

by Travis, Congress Avenue, Milam and Preston.

The Market Square Historic District Project of the Downtown Houston Association has organized the weeklong observance. Sponsor is NationsBank. For more information, call 222-6138.

We are gratified by Judge Jon Lindsay's recent comments in a Commissioners' Court meeting during which he stated: "We are located in a historic district, the birthplace of Houston, and we have some obligation to preserve the building and to work with entities such as the University of Houston-Downtown, the Buffalo Bayou groups and others in the development of a campus atmosphere."

Design details will still need to be developed with input from our office, The Greater Houston Preservation Alliance and the Texas Historical Commission. Our goal is to not only save the building, but to retain its National Register listing status.

The vote in Commissioner's Court has been delayed several times. As of press

time, we were expecting it at any time.

We are grateful to everyone who expressed proprietary concern about the fate of this important building. Your voice has really made a big difference and has been heard by members of Commissioners Court! We also appreciate the efforts of Harris County officials to maintain an open dialogue and the willingness of project architects Hermes, Reed, Hindman, to work toward a solution.

Weare hopeful that both sides will win in this situation, and that Harris County will set an example for future rehabilitation projects in the Market Square Historic District.

Minnette Boesel is director o/the Market Square Historic District Project o/the Downtown Houston Association.

Good Brick Awards Call for Entries Any organization or individual involved in historic preservation is eligible to receive a GHPA Good Brick A ward. Examples of such preservation activities include historic research; publications, work on historic monuments, parks or landscapes; or projects

involving historic buildings, such as rehabilitation of commercial structures, residential restorations, and adaptive use projects.

For an official nomination form (required for all entries) or additional infomation, call GHPA at 236-5000.

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GHPA members recall how they evolved as preservationists

By Anna Mod We preservationists are a group with a variety of backgrounds and interests, yet we share a common passion. In order to explore the reasons why some of GHPA members became interested in preservation, For Preservation talked to some to find out if there was a common thread in their development as preservationists. We didn't find that common thread. We did, however, uncover some interesting preservationist origins.

Jerry Baiamonte grew up in the Houston Heights. It was a youthful interest in history which prompted him to join' the Texas Junior High Historical Society. Presently Jerry owns, lives and works in historic buildings.

History was the "in" door to preservation for A. Pat Daniels as well.

ship, part of a World War I ship-building experiment, except, as he says, "to act as a custodian for a piece of Texas history."

Gayle Ramsey is from West Texas, yet says her preservation interests were sparked while living in San Francisco where, she says she "got into preservation as a side interest." This side interest took off and, before moving to Houston, Gayle had remodeled five houses there. She presently lives in Montrose where she is active in civic associations.

Gayle's current residence was purchased in 1978. It is a four-unit Spanish style courtyard building in East Montrose, built in 1928. Some of its noteworthy features include a raised, enclosed, open courtyard with fountain, a bricked sideyard and deck. Ceilings are nine feet; most of the original fixtures have been retained in three of the baths as have most of the original kitchen cabinets and floor

Rosie Walker (taller child) recalls a childhood home in a Beaumont, Texas apartment building.

Pat's interest was sparked through his work while doing advertising for The Rice Hotel. Later he published a book, Texas Avenue @ Main Street, and, with his wife, published the Market Square Gazette, a newsweekly. He has written histories of the GalvestonlPort Bolivar ferry and the Bolivar Peninsula. Pat, who retired recently from his copyeditor job at the Houston Chronicle, has emphasized this interest recently by purchasing a World War I era concrete ship; the one visible from the GalvestonlBolivar ferry boats. The ship was run aground in 1922.

Pat has no plans for the concrete

Kennedy Bakery, now La Carafe, as illustrated by Helen Peter.

tile. Another of her involvements is the 802 Westheimer police station.

Gayle is adamant that her neighborhood should not be overlooked in its historical significance, even though most of the buildings are not as old as in some other areas of the city.

Helen Peter was in graduate school, majoring in art, when she painted a series of watercolors of old buildings. Ten years later, she returned to school for a degree in architecture. She continues to display her artistic talents, as seen in the sketch of the Kennedy Bakery, now La Carafe.

Rosie Walker remembers growing up surrounded by large structures in Beaumont. These were off-limits to children.

Rosie lived with her parents in an apartment in a courtyard-centered building.

"The apartment seemed big because we had lots of windows and high ceilings.

The total lack of air-conditioning meant windows were always open. The women kept in touch by leaning out windows and calling their friends. My mother would knock on the wall to tell her friend that a pot of coffee was ready. Mainly, I remember the courtyard, because the women congregated there every day to talk and watch their children play. In retrospect, I see that building as a tiny community.

"I had two little friends who lived nearby in large Victorian houses. One was my friend Myrna Loy, named in honor of the movie star. The other was Dorothy.

Myrna Loy's family home, which in my memory looks like the Witch's Hat house

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Courtyard of Gayle Ramsey's East Montrose apartment building, built in 1928. Antique Mexcian doors open onto the courtyard from living and dining areas. on Fannin here in Houston, had been converted into a rooming house. There were rooms in there that Myrna Loy had never set foot in, because they were always occupied by paying guests.

Dorothy'S family's house was even larger, with three-plus stories, innumerable bedrooms and porches and bathrooms.

Dorothy had the run of that house-later to become a funeral home-but rarely could she bring home other children.

The live-in staff forbade it. I remember only one visit inside that place, a magical after-noon of wandering the premises unsupervised, except by Dorothy."

Rosie recalls that she was quite young when she learned the unforgettable lesson that haunts preservationminded people: we cannot restore the past. That happened one night when the converted mansion that was sheltering and pro-viding income for Myrna Loy's family burned to the ground.

"It was after bedtime when I walked to the end of the block with my parents. Fire was shooting into the sky. I was too young to feel compassion for the displaced victims; that night I felt only excitement. But I remember my mother

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cried uncontrollably, so I was aware of enormous sadness inherent in the loss of the home."

As a child will, she remembers thinking that Myrna Loy's family's intriguing old house would be replaced by an exact replica, just like a toy might be replaced or fixed exactly as it had been, maybe even better. That didn't happen.

"I was bewildered when the new house turned out to be a plain, fiveroom bungalow, set on concrete blocks.

I was certain some grownups had made a mistake. My mother tried to explain that there was no money for another big house and that you cannot replace fancy houses once they catch on fire and bum up," Rosie recalls. "A lot of exploring and inhabiting and touring and fixing up and warehousing and lobbying for historic structures have become part of my life experience since, but undoubtedly my genuine, lifelong passion for preservation was burned into my soul early on, when Myrna Loy's beautiful family home was destroyed by fire and replaced by a house that was commonplace and unmagical.

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Houston Real Estate Council about the importance of keeping historic preservation provisions in the ordinance.

• Minnette Boesel, director of the Market Square Project, and chair of GHPA'S Endangered Buildings Committee. Minnette has been liaison between historic preservation and business interests in the historic area of the downtown, where many of the buildings are owned by out-oftown and foreign corporations, some of whom bought the properties on speculation and have made no investment in maintenance and repair.

• The board of the Houston Homeowners Association. These people, leaders in their own neighborhood groups throughout Houston, provided political support for preservation when they endorsed additional historic preservation provisions for

the Zoning Ordinance. These included penalty provisions for illegal demolition of historic buildings.

• Houston City Councilmember Eleanor Tinsley, who provided strong support for retaining in the ordinance provisions for historic preservation.

• Kelly Thompson, chair of HAHC. Kelly is a preservation architect in the Heights, and has guided HAHC members and volunteers through review of two draft versions of the Zoning Ordinance and has been an effective liaison between the HAHC and the Zoning Strategies Committee.

• Mayor Bob Lanier, who went on record supporting zoning as an important tool for historic preservation and for retaining provisions for preservation in the Zoning Ordinance.

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Inside GHPA The Texas Historical Commission has announced that the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance is one of five recipients of 1993 Texas Historic Preservation Grants.

An award of $5,000 will be made to the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance for a project to rehabilitate the Cannata Houses. These two circa-1890 houses, located in the Old Sixth Ward National Register Historical District, were donated to the Alliance last year by Fred V. Cannata after neighborhood preservationists, as well as state and local preservation groups, learned that they were in danger of being demolished.

Since its inception in 1981, the Texas Historic Preservation Grant Program has supported more than $5 million in preservation work on designated historic structures that are owned by not-for-profit organizations or political subdivisions of the state. The grant monies, appropriated by the Texas Legislature for acquiring, planning, or developing historic structures, must be matched locally on a twofor-one basis.

Houston Endowment grant The Preservation Alliance is proud to announce a grant of $25.000 {Tom Houston Endow-

ment Inc. The funds will be used to support the Alliance's 1992-1993 preservation programs. We are extremely grateful to the board of Houston Endowment for its commitment to historic preservation throughout Houston.

Fondren Foundation grant We are also very pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous $ I 0,500 grant from the Fondren Foundation, GHPA'S offices are now fully equipped with two desktop computers, laser printer, scanner, fax equipment, and the necessary software to make it all run properly. Partly as a result of the improved ability this gives us to keep track of membership, the size of our membership has increased approximately 28%.

New members GHPA welcomes the following new members: Individual Members. Edie Archer; Mrs. Rogo/' L. Beebe; Ed Cappel; Elizabeth Chapman; Robert Conklin; Gordon W. Hans; Lesa Horton; J. Carol Jackson; Maurice LaMontagne; Wilminor C. Russell and Anne M. Thomas.

Family Members. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen III; Dr. and Mrs. James J. Butler; Jeff Casey; Don Cole and Elaine Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Frazier; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Golding; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hopkins, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lester; Mr. and Mrs. James H. Marrs; Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Mistrot; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Morris; Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Packard; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith and Gerald R. Spencer.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation convened its annual meeting in Miami, Oct. 7th, under the theme "Shaping America's Communities by Embracing the Vitality of People and Places." Miami was a perfect site for a meeting emphasizing cultural diversity in historic preservation; the speakers and sessions provided encouragement and enlightenment for all of us to continue the good fight.

Choosing between the sessions addressing our opportunities and impediments, the tours, and how-to sessions sprinkled around greater Miami was a struggle.

Painful evidence of Hurricane Andrew was everywhere, but, as you might expect from the experience of Charleston after Hurricane Hugo, the historic buildings sustained the least damage.

-Barry Moore I perceived the 46th National Preservation Conference as a phenomenal meeting where the legacy of America was brought into focus by cultural diversity.

Networking with individuals regarding the preservation of historic resources within their communities was an opportunity for me to become acquainted with other grassroot preservationists.

The conference addressed

Patron Members. Rebecca Carazzone; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harrop; Mr. and Mrs. CM. Hedspeth; Dr. Elizabeth A. MacNaughton; John W. Reese and John L. Russell.

Business Members. Tom Cassin (J.A. Sharman & Son, Inc.); Bob Fretz, Jr. (Fretz Construction Company); Milam & Co. Painting, Inc. Corporate Member. Carlos Morris.

Student Members. Charles A. John and James David Trulove.

Hail to the host Thanks so much to Carter & Cooley Deli for hosting our Nov. 5 Hard Hat Preview of the restoration at the 1882 Brashear Building. GHPA members had an inside and upstairs look at this fine three-story Victorian survivor designed by Eugene T. Heiner, who was the architect of the Houston Cotton Exchange, as well as other important Houston and Galveston buildings.

The building was constructed by Henry Brashear, who was a district judge and later vice president of Texas National Bank. Carter & Cooley Deli plans a second location here, to open in 1993.

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my preservation efforts; sessions such as "Scholarship Recipient Meeting," "Teaching with Historic Places," "Preservation Strategies for the African-American Church," "Somebody Who Wore the Shoe,""Working Effectively with Religious Property Owners," "Preservation Leadership Workshop,"and "Historic Overton Mobile Workshop."

I am very grateful to the National Trust, THe, GHPA and the Harris County Heritage Society for their support and financial assistance, which enabled be to attend.

-Willie Gay

The Tours Committee is looking for volunteers to help with the 1993 schedule of walking tours of the Main Street/Market Square Historic District. GHPA offers these guided tours on the third Wednesday and third Sunday of each month. We also accommodate group tours, by prior arrangement, and volunteers are needed for these special events. Training for volunteers will be scheduled in January. Call the GHPA office at 236-5000 to sign up or to request more information.

Need membership help The Membership Committee needs volunteers to help plan and carry out members' programs and special events and to help out in telephoning members.

Call 236-5000 to volunteer.

Student tours Are you concerned about Houston's historic landmarks being preserved? Would you like to help cultivate preservationists for that task?

If so, we invite you to become a volunteer with the Heritage Education Committee. We need individuals who could give a few hours at a time on weekdays to lead student tours of the Main Street-Market Square Historic Distcict. The Heritage Education Committee will provide you with the necessary training. If you would like to join us in this investment in our city's preservation future, call Betty Chapman at 974-4970.

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Miami previously had a slick image embedded in my mind; I was amazed to find an abundance of architectural and historical treasures. Miami is indeed the newest of America's mega-cities, but she has more of her past to show than we do in Houston.

The convention planners scheduled tours of Miami and the surrounding areas, which have retained a focus of the cultural diversity. This is one area where Houston does compare favorably. Conference events were held in beautifully renovated hotels, churches, villas and private homes. One tour was underwater workshop at the site of a galleon wreck of 1733.

Not every event took place in an historic building; like us they have an abundance of historic parking lots. Still, the Miami hosts were able to showcase their heritage; Houston, with more of a past, has less left standing to share with visitors.

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Galveston host holiday events in Victorian manner Anna Mod photo

Sara's Bed-and-Breakfast Inn, 941 Heights Blvd.

The second annual "Victorian Open House in the Heights" will be held Friday, Dec. 4, from 6:30pM to 9:00PM. Decorated inside and out for the holidays, the formal rooms of 941 Heights Blvd., 768 E. 16th Street, and 1603 Cortlandt will be open to the public. The Houston Heights Historical Museum, 1703 Heights Boulevard, featuring memorabilia dating from the 1890s, will also be open.

Dickens on The Strand, Galveston Historical Foundation's spirited celebration of Christmas Past, will again transform the gas lit streets of The Strand National Historic Landmark District into the London of Charles Dickens on Saturday and Sunday, December 5th and 6th.

Sara's Bed-and-Breakfast Inn, at 941 Heights Blvd., is one of the most decorated structures at Christmastime in the Heights.

The original structure was built in 1898, as a one-story Victorian home, and it also served over the years as an antique shop and print shop. Since 1980, when renovation began, it has become a two-story, Queen Anne-style home with wrap-around porch, turret and widow's walk. Today, it is an inn, furnished with antiques and collectibles.

An English Tudor-style bungalow, the home of John Moraida and Joe Baugh, will be decorated with fresh garlands and lights.

The Louisiana planters-style cottage at 1603 Cortlandt has just been restored and updated by its owner, John Searcy. When he bought the home in 1991, it was dilapidated and affectionately known as the "leaning tower." Major renovation and restoration, including the addition of a second story, have brought it to its present condition. This Christmas, fresh fruit in the Williamsburg tradition hugs the front entryway, hinting of good things to come.

Tickets are $7 for three houses and may be purchased at any of the homes. Tickets may also be purchased at the Houston Heights Library, 1302 Heights Blvd.

The Houston Heights Association, through its Historical and Restoration Committees, is sponsor of this event. Proceeds will be used to benefit neighborhood projects.

Just 50 miles and 100 years from the skyscrapers of downtown Houston, Dickens on The Strand in Galveston has grown to become the Southwest's largest winter festival.

Hundreds of volunteers, street vendors and entertainers, all in Victorian costume, bring back the bustle of a golden era when the sun never set on the British Empire.

Throughout the event area, master craftsmen ply their trades, breathing new life into age-old traditions. Artisans will demonstrate bookbinding, spinning, lace making and glass blowing in booths on The Strand and Mechanic Street. Visitors may try their hand at candle dipping to create their own Christmas candlfs.

Houston's Museum of Printing History will recreate a complete 19th-century print shop in the 1890 Clarke & Courts Building, the former home of one of Texas' oldest printing companies. Visitors may print their own lithographs from plates of Dickens' A Christmas Carol on a 1850s press originally used to print The Galveston Dainly News. Watercolor artists will handtint the prints as was done in the 1880s.

Visitors will enjoy command performances on eight stages, including a British music hall review at the Cross Keys Inn, a new outdoor pub and entertainment area at The Strand and 21 st Street. Costumed jugglers, magicians, tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and acrobats will perform.

Under the gaslights' glow, the London Coliseum Stage, Strand and 25th Street, comes alive with the joyous sounds of the Dickens Handbell Festival, the world's largest outdoor handbell concert. Bell choirs from 43 schools and churches in Texas and Oklahoma will perform on the half-hour from 5:30 to 7PM, Saturday, December 5th.

As a special added attraction for Dickens visitors, the London Wharf will also feature tours of the Columbus Foundation's replica of the Niiia. The caravel's design is based on details uncovered in recent discoveries of 15th-century Spanish shipwrecks, as well as archival research in Spain and Portugal.

The 88-foot replica was constructed in 1990 in Brazil using shipbuilding methods of the 1400s. A separate admission is required for the London Wharf. Tickets to the London Wharf are $5 per person and include admission to the Niiia and self-guided tours of the Elissa.

Dickens on The Strand will be held from lOAM to 10PM, Saturday, Dec. 5, and lOAM to 6PM, Sunday, Dec. 6, in The Strand National Historic Landmark District on Galveston Island.

Admission at the gate is $8 per person. Children under 12 are admitted free. Everyone in Victorian costume will be admitted free.

To order tickets by phone, call 713/280-3907. Phone orders may be charged to VISA, MasterCard or American Expre~~.

L&N Building critical to Main Street District The First National Bank Building is one of the most historically and architecturally significant properties in the Main Street-Market Square Historic District in downtown Houston. The eight-story building was constructed in three phases. The initial portion of the building, at Main and Franklin, was completed in 1905. The Main Street frontage of the building was extended southward in 1909. In 1925, a final addition carried the building back through the block to Fannin Street. As part of the 1925 addition, the grand, colonnaded banking hall that stretches through the ground floor from Main to Fannin was constructed.

The earliest section of the First National Bank Building was the first fully steel-framed skyscraper in Houston, and was one of the earliest in Texas. The building is a grandly-scaled, durably built, and richly-finished example of the monumental classical style with which downtown Houston's financial district was rebuilt just after the tum of the century.

By virtue of its location at the prime street comer in the old financial district, its distinguished career as home to the first chartered bank in Houston, and its majestic presence and beautiful appearance, the First National Bank Building contributes significantly to the Main Street-Market Square Historic District. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as a contributing property within this district.

-Steven Fox

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All three stages of the Lomas and Nettleton Building (1905, 1090, 1925) were designed by the architectural firm of Sanguinet & Staats of Fort Worth. These Fort Worth-based architects were responsible for many of the earliest generation of skyscraper office buildings in Texas.

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