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HERITAGE
A PUBLICATION OF THE TEXAS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION I EST. 1954 l $5 ISSUE Fall 2006FEATURE STORY
How A Small Town Jail Became On the Cover: Houston's historic River Oaks
A World Class Art Museum Theater, built in 1939, now threatened with
When Albany's jail was built in 1877, no one had any destruction. Photo by Jeff Mills.
idea that it would one day house works by some of the
world's greatest artists.
By Kate Sepanski
OTHER ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS
Working to Preserve a Community 6 President's Message
An area of Houston's Fourth Ward, near downtown,
was once a center of commerce and thriving neigh- 32 Preserving Treasures
borhoods for African-American settlers, but now its
future is in jeopardy. 34 Mapping Texas
By Pam Murtha
History's Unmaking?
Generations of Houstonians remember the opulent SEC
old theaters of that city where countless after- 33 Celebrating Our Collections
noons and evenings were spent watching movies
or vaudeville acts. Now, could the city's much-loved
River Oaks cinema and Alabama Theater-reborn
as a sophisticated bookstore-share the same fate
as the long-gone Bluebonnet, Broadway, Eastwood,
Wayside, and Yale theaters?
By Gene Krane
LISTINGS
Re-Fashioning Downtown El Paso
,7 Contributors
For almost 80 years, Adolph Schwartz and his family
sold dry goods to El Pasoans at their store on Mesa
and San Antonio Streets. Today that same building 20 Foundation Membership
is alive again with retail establishments, offices, and Honor Roll
loft-style housing in a project that has revitalized the
city's downtown. 38 Texas Historical Museums
By Lauren Vienne
39 Texas State Parks and
Historical Sites
EDITORIAL STAFF CONTRIBUTORS
Editor, Gene Krane Bell County Museum, John Cox, Frederic Dalbin, Documentary
Proofreader, Betty B. Hall Alliance, Katherine Goodwin, Gerron Hite, Bill Holmes, Hoteles
Camino Real, Gene Krane, Victoria Lowe, Dr. Carol McDavid, Jeff
Mills, Pam Murtha, Old Jail Art Center, Robert Oliver, Berneta
Peeples, Kelly Rushing, Kate Sepanski, Mark Stine, Bill Strother, texPRODUCTION
astejano.com, Texas Archeological Research Center, Texas Historical
Designer, Stacey Van Landingham Commission, University of Texas at Arlington, Lauren Vienne
HERITAGE magazine is published quarterly by the Texas Historical Foundation, P.O. Box 50314, Austin, Texas 78763; 512-453-2154; email:admin@texashistoricalfoundation.org.
Opinions expressed by contributing writers do not necessarily reflect those of the Texas Historical Foundation. THF is a private, nonprofit
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