Our Mission

Preservation Texas empowers Texans to preserve their cultural heritage, and stewards significant buildings, collections, and cultural landscapes to ensure their permanent protection.

Organizational Purposes:

• To educate the general public, and all persons, organizations, and agencies active in historic preservation, on public policy, legislative, legal, and economic development issues that impact historic preservation, and to advocate in the process for proposals benefitting historic preservation goals;

• To acquire, by purchase, gift, devise or bequest, with or without restriction, and to preserve, restore, maintain and present to the public those areas, sites, buildings, monuments, artifacts, artworks, books, documents, and objects which are significant in the history, prehistory, archaeology, architecture, heritage and culture of Texas;

• To disseminate information about the history, prehistory, heritage and culture of Texas, and historic preservation practice and trades;

• To engage in historical and archaeological research on the activities of past Texans; and

• To foster, encourage and develop a general appreciation and understanding of the lives and activities of past generations of Texans in order that the lives of present and future generations may be enriched.