San Antonio Conservation Society

San Antonio Conservation Society is Accepting Nominations for Historic Preservation Awards

Thu, Sep 15, 2011 18:36 CET

The deadline for nominations is Friday, November 4, 2011The San Antonio Conservation Society is accepting nominations through Friday, November 4, 2011 for its Historic Preservation Awards for the Built Environment. The purpose of the Historic Preservation Awards is to honor those who have reached the highest level of accomplishment in historic preservation by recognizing the quality of restoration and rehabilitation projects in the built environment (both residential and non-residential). Applications are also being accepted for the Society’s Lynn Ford Craftsman Award for the individual

The San Antonio Conservation Society decorates the Steves Homestead in historic German décor

Mon, Sep 12, 2011 21:12 CET

WHAT: The Steves Homestead—the historic house museum managed by the San Antonio Conservation Society in King William—will display authentic German Christmas decorations from the 19th and early part of the 20th century from Thursday, December 1, 2011 through Tuesday, January 3, 2012. As always at Christmas, the house is decorated in Victorian style and looks much as it did when the Steves family owned the home in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The home is decorated by Conservation Society staff and volunteers the week after Thanksgiving, with a floor-to-ceiling Christmas tree (

Popular Texas Star Trail map is revised and ready for walking

Wed, Jul 20, 2011 23:35 CET

Established in 1986, the Texas Star Trail began as a Sesquicentennial project of the San Antonio Conservation Society in cooperation with the City of San Antonio Sesquicenennial Committee and the Granaderos de Galvez. The Conservation Society and the Meadows Foundation jointly funded the original project which included creation and underwriting of the map, the brochure and 1,000 blue aluminum markers which depict the image of the Alamo beneath a lone star. With the help of the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation, Downtown Operations Department, Public Works Department

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