Historic Woodmen Circle Home in Sherman with the title The Home the Woodmen Left Behind
Sherman’s Woodmen Circle Home sheltered widows, orphans, and older members for decades. After abandonment, fire, folklore, and demolition, the people who lived there remain the truest history.
Fort Worth Central Post Office columns and ornate lobby interior
Opened in 1933, Fort Worth’s monumental central post office turned an everyday public service into an architectural promise of order, beauty, and connection.
Who Will Fund Dallas’s Thanks-Giving Square? featured image showing the spiral Chapel of Thanks-Giving
In the middle of downtown Dallas, Philip Johnson’s spiral chapel and Gabriel Loire’s stained glass turn gratitude into a path, a place, and a field of color.
Texas and Pacific Warehouse in Fort Worth with preservation and change headline
Fort Worth’s immense T&P Warehouse helped shape the railroad city. Now the Art Deco landmark faces a decisive question about preservation, reuse, and its future.
Sugar Land’s Central Unit grew from plantation agriculture, convict leasing, prison labor, and racial violence. Its history still shapes the land and the choices being made for its future.
Editorial featured image of the surviving Swift & Company staircase in Fort Worth with the words Swift Legacy at Risk.
The surviving Swift & Company employee staircase and Victorian-era wall in the Fort Worth Stockyards have been named among the city’s most endangered historic places. See the photographs, watch the film and vote in the preservation poll.
Built in 1895 and closed for half a century, Chico’s First Christian Church is being asked to carry community memory into a new life.
Fort Worth Water Gardens with the headline The $6.5 Million Renewal Ahead
Fort Worth is preparing a $6.5 million renewal of its landmark Water Gardens, beginning with the systems that keep the Active Pool, lighting, landscape, and moving water alive.
Lorraine Benini being filmed inside Museo Benini with the title Where Color Lives
At Museo Benini near Marble Falls, one artist’s lifetime unfolds in roses, ribbons, geometry, and light. This is the story of Benini—and the vision Lorraine Benini is helping carry forward.
The Baker Hotel tower in Mineral Wells, Texas, glowing in golden-hour light
Step inside the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells through Jonny Goodday’s photographs and films, tracing its 1929 opening, decades of silence, and restoration toward a planned 2028 return.

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