The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran an article about endangered sites in the state.
Dancehalls in Texas have been for decades a cultural landmark, but many are falling to age these days. Quite a few still have highly flammable wooden dance floors and walls as well as sub-code antiquated wiring. In the early 1900s, there were an estimated 1200 of these dancehalls.
A new group has been formed to preserve these icons, calling themselves the Texas Dance Hall Preservation. They got together after a 2007 fire destroyed Gruenau Hall which was built in 1900. It was a round dance hall with hardwood maple floors and hand-carved rafters.
Other famous ones are Luckenbach Dance Hall near Fredericksburg and Gruene Hall which bills itself as the oldest continually operating dance hall in Texas which attracts big acts and large crowds.
Preservation Texas has put Austin's Schroeder Dance Hall on their endangered list.
www.texasdancehall.org
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RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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