Title
Recognition of the Preserve Historic McKinney - Historic Home Recognition Program and Calendar
Summary
MEETING DATE: December 6, 2011
DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT: Guy R. Giersch, Historic Preservation Officer
ITEM SUMMARY:
• Beginning in 2008, the City of McKinney Historic Preservation Advisory Board (HPAB) established the “Preserve Historic McKinney - Home Recognition Program” to recognize property owners who have revitalized our historic residential community by making significant exterior improvements to their individual properties. This program is not a grant or funding program. It simply recognizes the outstanding efforts of individual property owners and seeks to encourage future individual reinvestment in the historic residential community.
• Between November 2010 and January 2011, McKinney residents were asked to identify and nominate residential properties that are located in the Historic Neighborhood Improvement Zone and that meet the general evaluation criteria outlined in the attached document.
• In April, the HPAB reviewed all of the nominations and selected 14 properties to be recognized in the promotional calendar. Since that time, HPAB members and Staff have been working diligently to solicit sponsors, take photographs, research historical information, and layout/design/print the calendars.
• The following 14 properties (and their owners) are featured in the calendar:
o Chestnut Square, Cindy Johnson, Executive Director - 313 S. Chestnut
o Charles & Pat Rogers - 609 W. Lamar
o David & Michelle Hepburn - 211 N. College
o David & Karen Firth - 504 N. Church
o William & Francelia Weeks - 504 N. Parker
o Michael & Lorraine Breece - 511 W. Virginia
o John Finch - 524 W. Hunt
o Sally McIntosh - 1001 Coleman
o Jim & Cynthia Wilson - 418 W. Louisiana
o Tim & Christine Hogan - 509 N. Church
o Bill & Ann Dowdy - 510 Tucker
o Jim & Eileen Ryan - 615 Lamar
o Don & Gena Flannary - 310 N. Bradley
o James & Glenda Pinkston - 903 N. College
- Special thanks go to the following sponsors for their generous donations to the project:
o The Riederer & Hogan Group w/ Ebby Halliday
o The Milstead Team w/ Keller Williams
o Jered Custom Homes
o Wayne Goodall - The British Builder
o Cambridge Homes
o Travis Ussery, CPA
o The Body Shop
o Local Yocal -Farm to Market
o McKinney Community Development Corporation
o Repair My Credit Now
o Sauce On the Square
o Rick’s Chophouse
o The Pantry Restaurant
o Jim Wilson Architects
- Special thanks to Joseph Crisalli, former HPAB member, whose untiring devotion created this year’s calendar. Don Simmons, of Don Simmons Photography, contributed time and talent in producing the majority of photographs for the calendar.
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- The calendars will be used to help promote and recognize the historic heritage of McKinney.