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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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