2026 Most Endangered Places List

Preservation Texas is announcing its 2026 list of Texas’s Most Endangered Places. This year’s list includes six significant historic sites representing a diverse range of Texas heritage: a nationally recognized brutalist icon, a Houston neighborhood theater, a Texas centennial reconstruction, a Route 66 moderne-era site, a prominent Austin bridge, and a vernacular pioneer homestead.

The 2026 list highlights both the architectural and cultural diversity of Texas and the wide range of preservation challenges facing communities across the state, from the Piney Woods of East Texas to the Panhandle, the Texas-Oklahoma border, and the rapidly growing urban centers of Dallas, Houston, and Austin.

Since launching the first Most Endangered Places list in 2004, Preservation Texas has brought critical attention to vulnerable historic sites statewide. Over the past two decades, the program has identified hundreds of threatened places, raising public awareness and helping mobilize support for their protection. Since the program’s inception, 207 individual sites have been included on the list. Of those, 63 sites (30%) have been saved, 34 (16%) are currently in progress, and only 20 (10%) have been lost.

The sites included on the 2026 Most Endangered Places list are as follows: