Rebecca and Ken Walker’s East End house, on the corner of Church and 15th streets in Galveston, is part of the Historical District’s Christmas home tour. Photo by Kelsey Walling
Custodians of a Victorian treasure
‘Complexity and craftsmanship’
Doug McLean pulls up rotted floor covering to reveal beautiful tile work at the W.L. Moody Bank building on The Strand in Galveston. The massive building is undergoing major renovations. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Brick by brick, crews rescue an architectural masterpiece
As a child growing up in Galveston, Keith Bassett remembers going to Col. Bubbie’s Strand Surplus Senter, which occupied the entire 2200 block of The Strand in the island’s downtown. [Read more…]
‘Good for another century’
Project manager H.P. Dodge operates a lift as restoration work continues on the old First National Bank building on The Strand in Galveston. The building is now home to the Galveston Arts Center. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Once on the brink of ruin, nationally important building undergoes restoration
After 14 years, two hurricanes and $3 million, the First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand in Galveston’s downtown, is restored down to the flourishes beneath the cornice. Its structure and future are secure. [Read more…]
The art of the matter
Galveston Arts Center teaching artist Cristal Aldrete helps with a student’s clay project in a classroom at the center. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Center serves as source of creativity as it seeks supporters
Long the hub of visual arts on the island, the Galveston Arts Center is re-emerging as a source of creativity, inspiration, artistic energy and community pride after a decade of significant trials that included structural failures in its downtown building, two hurricanes and the grind of maintaining a steady flow of operating funds. [Read more…]
‘You want to protect it’
A scuba diver swims amid a school of fish at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of G.P. Schmahl, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
Researchers, divers call Flower Garden Banks an underwater Texas treasure
‘Having all of this’
Rex and Gayle Reynolds sit on the back porch of their waterfront house on Sportsman Road in Galveston.
The porch offers sweeping views of Galveston Bay. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Birds, natural beauty of Galveston lured couple to island
‘We are beach people’
Olivia Baze, 14, walks to the waves with her surfboard on the beach near her Beachside Village home.
The Baze family moved from Katy to their weekend home full time in 2014. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
It was hard to leave after Galveston visits, so family made island their permanent home
Good migrations
White-faced ibis by Susan Ellison.
Thousands flock to upper Texas coast birding festival
In the middle of March, as daytime temperatures climb to the upper 60s and warm Gulf breezes intensify, Galveston wetlands, grasslands, ponds and bays become the stage for one of nature’s astonishing dramas — spring migration. [Read more…]
‘You have to be patient’
Don Wilkerson and Sharon Duray are avid bird-watchers and particularly enjoy searching out shorebirds. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Birding enthusiasts seek close encounters of the feathered kind
Perfect perches
An egret takes flight at the Smith Oaks Sanctuary in High Island on the Bolivar Peninsula. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Top birding spots on the upper Texas coast
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