Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation collection
Scope and Content of the collection
The Administrative Record series, contains correspondence, reports, photographic material, drawings, course rosters, course materials, financial documentation, and clippings. Of particular interest is the initial restoration planning (1963-1967) conducted by University of Texas Professors Wayne Bell and Blake Alexander, and by Walter Freytag, chairman of the Fayette County Historical Survey Committee, as well as the April 1967 dedication ceremony organized by Blake Alexander. Early fund-raising and planning for restoration projects are documented; included is the preliminary plan for development of Winedale properties (1972). The series also includes records about individual courses offered by the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation.
The Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation project records series contains photographs, negatives, logbooks, maps, notes, reports, creative works and field note drawings created and collected by students and faculty from the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation. These records detail students' work in the documentation of architecturally historic sites. This series includes historic research on the owners, sites, and locales, as well as architectural renderings and photographs. Buildings documented are not limited to the Winedale Complex, but also include the Fayette County Survey and sites in other counties, including Austin, Colorado, Hays, Refugio, Travis, Washington, and Williamson. The Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation records mostly document residential structures, but also include commercial sites, such as the Kreische Brewery Complex, the Burton Cotton Gin, and a business block in downtown Taylor, Texas. Some projects include transcripts and/or audio tapes of oral histories of former occupants of the buildings. If final measured drawings were produced, they were separated and transferred to the Texas Architecture Archive.
The Neuhaus reference material series contains archival material that was purchased by the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation. The correspondence (in German script), photographic material and scrapbook document Ludwig Eduard (L.E.) Neuhaus and his immigration from Ellerburg, Germany, to Lavaca County, Texas, in 1846, and his settlement of Hackberry, Texas. The Neuhaus Complex was surveyed by the Winedale Institute in 1992, and this reference material aided their work.
Dates
- Creation: 1847-1993
- Creation: bulk 1963-1993
Creator
- Winedale Historical Center (Round Top, Tex.) (contributor, Organization)
Policies Governing Use and Access
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Historical background of Winedale Historical Center and the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation
The Winedale Historical Center, located in the small community of Winedale in northeastern Fayette County, Texas, is an outdoor museum and study center dedicated to Texas history. The Winedale property was purchased in 1963 by Miss Ima Hogg (1882-1975), a Houston philanthropist, arts patron, and advocate of cultural and educational programs, in order to preserve and restore the historic Stagecoach Inn, located on the property.
In 1965, Miss Hogg collaborated with the University of Texas at Austin to begin developing a cultural study center at Winedale. By 1967, she had given the University of Texas the acreage, the restored buildings and an endowment for their upkeep. At that time, the University of Texas founded the Stagecoach Inn Council to administer the restoration of the Inn. Today, the once simple farmstead has expanded to contain seven historical buildings situated on the 190-acre tract and is known as the Winedale Historical Center.
Beginning in 1969, the University of Texas' School of Architecture began sponsoring workshops in areas of Texas architecture and historic preservation. By 1975, these workshops evolved into the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation, a four-week, in-residence, interdisciplinary course in the documentation and recording of historic sites in Central Texas. It is affiliated with the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service, offering experience in historic documentation, ink on Mylar drafting and National Register of Historic Places documentation. The Institute was held under the direction of University of Texas Architecture Professor Wayne Bell and was open to undergraduate and graduate students in fields such as architecture, interior design and American studies.
The Winedale Historical Center has hosted tours and cultural events for the general public, such as the annual Winedale Festival, which includes the Shakespeare at Winedale Theatre performances, and orchestral concerts. The Winedale museum offers exhibitions in Texas cultural history. In addition, the Center provides a setting for scholars, craftsmen, and students to study, observe and recreate buildings and artifacts from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century.
Partial Extent
14.2 Linear Feet
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2662 photographs
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266 negatives
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98 slides
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2 videocassettes
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4 audio_cassettes
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2 audiotape_reels
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1 floppy_disk
Language of Materials
English
German
Abstract
The Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation collection consists of records from the Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation, a program operated by The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture located at the Winedale Historical Center in Fayette County, Texas. The collection also includes some administrative material from the Winedale Historic Site, an outdoor museum and study center dedicated to Texas history. Record types include correspondence, reports, photographic material, oral histories, field notes, and drawings that document the Institute's administrative functions and work in the documentation of architecturally historic sites.
Collection Processors
Initial processing by Christopher Jones and Terri Herbert, LIS 389C.1, November 1993. Additional processing and finding aid by Amanda Keys, July 2010.
Subject
- Wayne Bell (contributor, Person)
- Taylor, Lonn, 1940-2019 (contributor, Person)
- Alexander, Drury Blakeley (contributor, Person)
- Winedale Historical Center (Round Top, Tex.) (contributor, Organization)
- University of Texas System. Winedale Inn Properties (contributor, Organization)
- Title
- Winedale Institute in Historic Preservation collection
- Date
- 2002
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Alexander Architectural Archives Repository
University of Texas Libraries
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