The Cantey Lecture is an annual lecture event where a prominent speaker addresses topics related to historic preservation and architectural history. The Cantey Awards are presented during this event and recognize outstanding achievements in preservation projects, stewardship, and leadership in the field of historic preservation. This event is an important part of Historic Fort Worth, Inc.’s mission to preserve and promote the historic heritage of Fort Worth, Texas.
2023 Cantey Lecture & Preservation Awards
Thursday, October 19, 5:30: PM
Everly Plaza Gallery, 1801 8th Avenue
This year’s Cantey Lecturer is Dr. Kathryn Holliday, the Randall Biallas Professor of Historic Preservation and American Architectural History of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. Her presentation is titled Nowtown and Cowtown: Art Deco Architecture and a Modern Fort Worth.
While at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Holliday was the founding director of the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture. She also established the Dillion symposium to bring together scholars and experts from across disciplines to discuss issues related to architecture and urbanism in north Texas.
Photos taken by the late Dr. Donald M. Cohen for Judith Singer Cohen’s book Cowtown Moderne: The Lasting Influence of the Art Deco Style will be hung in the gallery space by students of Ms. Cheryl A. Mitchell, Associate Professor of Practice, University of Texas at Arlington. Twelve preservation awards will be presented by Dr. Holliday for Historic Fort Worth, Inc.
The preservation awards follow the lecture.
The Texas and Pacific Passenger Terminal
The structure combines the disparate stylistic motifs that characterized the opulent Art Deco style of the late 1920s. (Opened 1931, Zig-Zag Style, Wyatt C. Hedrick; Extant.) (Courtesy of Donald M. Cohen.)
Photo is courtesy of the Special Collections at UTA
Judith Singer Cohen
Judith Singer Cohen, author or “Cowtown Moderne,” was born on January 1, 1936 in Philadelphia. She studied Interior Design at the Drexel Institute. In 1955, Singer married Donald M. Cohen (1931-2014) a physician by trade, who became an accomplished photographer and would later provide the photographs of Fort Worth’s buildings used to illustrate Judy’s thesis and the book “Cowtown Moderne”.
Photo is courtesy of the Special Collections at UTA
SAM CANTEY
As a Fort Worth visionary, businessman, collector of art and leader of the Fort Worth Art Association, (now the Modern Art Museum), Samuel Benton Cantey III (1914-1973) understood that great architecture is irreplaceable. In the 1950’s Mr. Cantey invited Bror Utter (1913-1993) to paint architecturally significant buildings in downtown Fort Worth as they were being prepared for demolition. Mr. Utter, a talented studio artist and teacher, was a member of the Fort Worth Circle, the legendary group of artists who traveled abroad and painted together. His paintings document both demolished and standing downtown buildings and are part of the permanent collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The annual Cantey Lecture is paired with HFW’s preservation awards.
HFW Members Attend for Free | Non-Member Admission $50
Each year, Historic Fort Worth recognizes and honors the preservation efforts of others in our community with our annual Presentation Awards ceremony in conjunction with the Cantey Lecture series.
Thank you for your entries!
Awards will be presented on October 19, 2023 at 5:30 pm at the Everly Plaza Gallery located at 1801 8th Avenue.
2022 HFW Preservation Award Winners:
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
Beth-El Congretation
1920’s decorative items from 1922 synagogue recently installed in new house of worship.
4900 Briarhaven Rd.
October 20, 2023
Residential Rehabilitation Award
is presented to
Patty and Mickey Bradley
For the Burke House
move from 1501 Pruitt St. to
6th Ave in Fairmount.
October 20, 2023
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
Glenn M. Darden
for First on 7th
500 W. 7th Street.
October 20, 2023
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
Domingo Garcia
for
2237 Hemphill Street
October 20, 2023
Great Steward Award
is presented to
O. R. Gentry family
for
Kincaid’s Hamburgers
4901 Camp Bowie Boulvard
October 20, 2023
Great Steward Award
is presented to
Angie and William Butler
for
Landreth Lodge
October 20, 2023
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
City of Fort Worth
For the Restoration of
Lone Star Gas Flame
908 Monroe Street
October 20, 2023
Residential Rehabilitation Award
is presented to
Peggie Muir
for the rehabilitation of the
Lustron House
4701 Marks Place
October 20, 2023
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
Craig Caveleer & Bradley Hickman, Jr. and Michael Bennett, AIA
for their project for
Mule Alley
122 East Exchange Avenue
Preservation Achievement Award
is presented to
Mike Nichols
A posthumous award for his devotion
to journalism and history.
October 20, 2023
Preservation Project Award
is presented to
Cassie and Jacob Warren
for the adaptation of the
Anton Koldin House
into a coffee shop and B&B
2503 Roosevelt Avenue
October 20, 2023
Preservation Achievement Award
is presented to
Judith Singer Cohen
and the late
Donald M. Cohen, M.D.
for the book
Cowtown Moderne
October 20, 2023
All nominations were evaluated based on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. (See nps.gov/history/standards.htm for details.) Criteria include, but are not limited to: sensitivity to the historic integrity of the property, historic features, and craftsmanship. Award nominees and winners were notified prior to the public presentation of the Preservation Awards, held last year on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 5:30 pm at the Everly Plaza Apartments Gallery located at 1801 8th Avenue.
2023 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 19. Watch for details to come.
Some of the guests enjoying the festivities
