Contributing to the Cause
2007-

2007
The Society works with the City’s preservation office to save comedian Carol Burnett’s childhood home on West Commerce Street. A local non-profit moves the c. 1905 Queen Anne style house eight blocks for use as an after-school learning center.

Marcie Ince elected president

The Society joins with Scenic America and Scenic Texas to oppose a pilot program that will allow 15 digital billboards to be erected in San Antonio. Despite the Society’s efforts to persuade the city council to preserve the city’s scenic and urban corridors, only one city councilman votes against the pilot program.

The Society convinces the Board of Directors for the Bexar Metropolitan Water District to place a preservation easement on the 1848 James Trueheart House, its outbuildings, and the surrounding land prior to the sale of the property. The easement, which will be binding on all successive owners, will protect the historic integrity of the site.

2008
The Society opposes consideration of the Maverick Ranch-Fromme Farm as a potential site for the proposed Upper Leon Creek Regional Storm Water Detention Facility. The Maverick Ranch-Fromme Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a wildlife preserve for two endangered species of birds.

The City demolishes the 1929 Jorrie Building without review by the Historic Design and Review Commission and uses emergency demolition procedures to tear down a house in the Tobin Hill Historic District before the new owner has a chance to renovate it. The Society obtains a commitment from the mayor to re-examine the city’s demolition procedures for historic structures.

Events from 1921 to 1995 excerpted from Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage by Lewis F. Fisher.

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