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Re-imagined Cornerstone event honors 2021 Good Brick Award winners under the stars
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The 2021 Good Brick Awards premiered on the big screen on March 25 when PH presented The Cornerstone Drive-In, a re-imagining of the annual Cornerstone Dinner. An audience of about 240 spent a beautiful spring evening enjoying the stories of this year’s Good Brick-winning projects. KHOU Channel 11’s Deborah Duncan and Jason Miles hosted the video awards showcase.
The sparkling downtown skyline provided a backdrop for the informal event at MoonStruck Drive-In Cinema in the East End. Board President Kate McCormick and her husband, Champ Warren III, co-chaired PH’s biggest fundraiser.
Sponsors and their guests enjoyed outdoor lounge seating with snacks and treats from catering partners Postino Montrose and Crave Cupcakes. Heartier fare was available from Houston Weenie Wagon and Las Brasas Tacos and Grill, with bar service by The New Potato.
PH thanks Ward & Ames Special Events for their invaluable assistance. The Cornerstone Dinner presenting the 2022 Good Brick Awards is scheduled for Friday, March 4, at River Oaks Country Club. PH members will be notified when Good Brick Award nominations open this summer.
Photos by Daniel Ortiz
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Landmark nominations for historic properties advance thanks to PH's community outreach
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Houston City Council has designated four more City of Houston landmarks based on nominations Preservation Houston prepared at the request of property owners. These new designations include two significant River Oaks homes as well as the first city landmark in a historic neighborhood east of downtown.
The Robert Spell House (1928) at 1448 Pearson Street is the first property in the Broadmoor neighborhood to be designated a City of Houston landmark. Broadmoor, near Eastwood, was developed in 1923 and retains many of its prewar homes. City Council also designated 406 Henry Street (1915) in the Near Northside as a protected landmark; the C.C. Rouse House (1940), 3609 Inwood Drive in River Oaks, as a landmark; and the Mr. & Mrs. John Bullington House (1938, Birdsall P. Briscoe), 3023 Del Monte Drive in River Oaks, as a protected landmark.
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Three landmark nominations prepared by PH staff have received Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission approval and now await City Council designation. They include the Pitre Goodie House (pictured), 3347 Reeves Street in Third Ward, built as a one-story bungalow in 1922 and raised to become a two-story home in 1948.
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The house was the longtime residence of Beulah Pitre Goodie, who was well-known in the neighborhood for providing childcare for women entering the workforce in the late 1950s and for offering rooms to students at nearby Texas Southern University. Also awaiting City Council designation as a landmark is the William H. Curtin House (1928, Samuel H. Dixon Jr.), 2504 Del Monte Drive in River Oaks. The Martha Schuhmacher Perlitz House (1912, Alonzo N. Dawson), 503 Avondale Avenue, is a pending protected landmark.
PH Community Outreach Coordinator Saneea Sakhyani and Preservation Services Coordinator Kathleen Nuzzo researched and wrote these landmark and protected landmark nominations as a community service for the property owners.
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See a changing Houston through photographer Paul Hester's lens in an online program April 13
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Join celebrated architectural photographer Paul Hester on Tuesday evening, April 13, as he shares some of his favorite Bayou City images — and the stories behind them — during PH's online program You Are Here: The Changing Face of Houston.
Hester’s photos of architecture and the urban landscape are a record of Houston’s growth and transformation in the last half century. His work is as remarkable for the structures it highlights as for the slices of life it captures: Houstonians at work and play, shopping, visiting or simply waiting for a bus. In his talk, Hester will share selected photos and the stories of when, where and why they were taken and what they tell us about the challenges of documenting an ever-changing city.
Registration for this program is free for PH and Pier & Beam members and $10 for non-members. Sign up by the end of the day Monday, April 12, and you'll receive information on how to watch the program via e-mail.
Photo: Dumble and B.A. Shepherd buildings, Main Street, 1970s / by Paul Hester
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PH reads
Five items that have caught our eye related to preservation, design and urbanism
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2 | Paul R. Williams-designed mosaic realized at UCLA 60 years later: Prominent Black architect Paul Williams sketched a leafy mosaic-tile mural when he designed the La Kretz Botany Building at UCLA in 1957, but the piece was never installed. Now, using Williams' drawings and a good bit of detective work, the mural has been realized as part of a comprehensive building restoration. (Preservation Leadership Forum)
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3 | The architects who, after a devastating earthquake, rebuilt a town: Thanks in part to a reconstruction project led by the nonprofit Fundación Hogares, a series of striking public projects have been built in the Mexican town of Jojutla to replace structures destroyed in a 2017 earthquake. Besides giving Jojutla thoughtfully designed new landmarks, the project could be a model for future disaster recovery south of the border. (New York Times)
Photo: Rafael Gamo
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4 | Frank Gehry's transformation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens in May: The architect's renovation of the landmark museum building is yielding 90,000 square feet of new usable space, including a re-imagined entrance hall, new gallery and event areas and the re-opening of an impressive vaulted corridor that has been off limits for half a century. (The Architect's Newspaper)
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5 | Architecture in film: modernism, futurism and beyond: From modernist houses to futuristic landscapes, the built environment and the ambience it creates play a key role in visual storytelling. Wallpaper magazine looks at nine examples of architecture on the big screen, from The Big Lebowski to Black Panther. (Wallpaper)
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