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A three-story historic limestone courthouse featuring Second Empire and Romanesque Revival architecture. The building has a central clock tower with a dark dome topped by an eagle weather vane, flanked by four smaller red-domed pavilions at the corners. The exterior consists of rough-hewn cream limestone with contrasting reddish-brown stone accents around the arched windows and entryways. A large portico with tall reddish columns marks the left side of the building.

National Register lists Downtown Bryan Historic District

Texas Historical Commission guided national recognition of community’s history and contributions to Texas

A three-story historic limestone courthouse featuring Second Empire and Romanesque Revival architecture. The building has a central clock tower with a dark dome topped by an eagle weather vane, flanked by four smaller red-domed pavilions at the corners. The exterior consists of rough-hewn cream limestone with contrasting reddish-brown stone accents around the arched windows and entryways. A large portico with tall reddish columns marks the left side of the building.

National Register lists Gatesville Downtown Historic District

Texas Historical Commission guided national recognition of Gatesville’s history and contributions to Texas

A street-level view of mid-century Ranch-style homes in a wooded neighborhood. The primary house is single-story with a tan brick exterior, brown decorative shutters, and three gables. Mature green trees tower over the properties, and a well-manicured green lawn sits in the foreground.

National Register lists Pollard Residential Historic District in Tyler

Texas Historical Commission guided national recognition of neighborhood’s history and contributions to Texas

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Texas Historical Commission Completes Transfer for Presidio La Bahía

Pivotal site of the Texas Revolution is one of most-visited in Lone Star State

Man in black cowboy hat and Texas Historical Commission vest smiling against weathered wood background

Texas Historical Commission Promotes Dr. Chris Elliott to Chief Historic Sites Officer

The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has announced the promotion of Dr. Chris Elliott to Chief Historic Sites Officer, where he will provide strategic leadership for the agency's network of 42 state historic sites across Texas, ensuring these landmarks continue to preserve and share Texas history with the public.

Leadership of the THC, NMPW, Nimitz Foundation and other leadership with Texas WW2 veterans at re-opening of George Bush Gallery at National Museum of the Pacific War

Texas historic preservation year in review: 2025

Texas Historical Commission caps record year with major site reopenings, historic preservation milestones

About 30 audience members at right sit in the courtroom of a historic county courthouse and watch a former county judge speak. The courthouse is well lit highlighting pink painted walls and dark polished wood furniture.

Texas Courthouses Take Center Stage at Notre Dame-Sponsored Preservation Forum

This year's forum explored the state's courthouse preservation efforts, and judges shared powerful stories of courthouse restorations' impacts in their counties.

Texas Hall in Tehuacana; daylight shot against blue sky with a few clouds, the once spectacular hall now lacks a central tower and right roof; only the left roof of the old academic hall is intact.

Texas Preservation Trust Fund benefits historic tavern, dance hall, log courthouse, more

A nearly 170-year-old log courthouse in Comanche County, a notorious tavern and dance hall on the Devil’s Backbone, and nine other recipients of the FY2026 Texas Preservation Trust Fund (TPTF) grants have all benefited from this Texas Historical Commission (THC) program that connects endangered historic places with preservation funding.

Unveiling of historic marker at Luther Hall; tight shot of left to right; State Marker Program Coordinator Bob Brinkman, Travis County Historical Commission Chair Bob Ward and Texas Historical Commission Executive Director Joseph Bell

Texas Historical Commission dedicates marker at Luther Hall

Sunday school building turned seed lab turned historic preservation offices have served Texas for 85 years

Photo showing a replica of a grass house that would have been built by the Caddo People

Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Hosts Annual Celebration of Caddo Culture

The Caddo Mounds State Historic Site in East Texas is hosting its annual Caddo Culture Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15.