HPNA General Meeting December 1st Agenda The December meeting of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association will be a pot-luck party and social. All association members and Hyde Park residents are welcome. It will be a great opportunity to enjoy some holiday cheer with the neighbors you know, and meet the ones that you don't. Drinks will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to bring some snacks or treats to share. The meeting will be held on the first Monday of December (December 1st) at 7:00 PM at Hyde Park United Methodist Church on 4001 Speedway.

Planning Team to File North Hyde Park NCCD in Early 2004

T he Hyde Park Planning Team has been preparing a draft NCCD for the area of HPNA north of 45th. Using the Hyde Park NCCD adopted for the areas south of 45th in 2002 as a model, we have tried to compile the features that are applicable to North Hyde Park. Most of the area is single family use except for two commercial sites on Duval, various multi-family sites, and the Guadalupe frontage and predominantly

December, 2003   National Register District Neighborhood   Vol. 29, No. 12

T he Elisabet Ney Museum has been designated a "Save America's Treasures" site, with $250,000 awarded for the museum's restoration and preservation.

[Note: See the related article at 20031110/20031110NeyGrant.html]     Save America's Treasures is a public-private partnership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service established in 1998 to help support the preservation and celebration of Americas threatened cultural resources. Highly competitive, only 14% of the applications submitted in 2003 were funded.     The Elisabet Ney Museum is noted nationally as one of only five nineteenth-century professional sculptors' studios surviving in America, together with Daniel Chester French's Chesterwood (Massachusetts), Augustus St. Gauden's Aspet (New Hampshire), the C. M. Russell Museum (Montana), and the Edward V. Valentine Sculpture Studio (Virginia).     The National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized the Elisabet Ney Museum as one of America's most significant artists' homes and studios in 2000 (Historic Artists' Homes and Studios charter museum). In 2001, the Trust funded a strategic fundraising plan for the museum's restoration and preservation. In 2002, the Trust designated the Ney a National Trust Associate Site.

Crowds are order of the day for the Ney Museum at the press conference announcing the Ney's designation as a National Treaure.     Elisabet Ney's portraits are displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Statuary Hall, the Texas State Capitol, University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas Center for American History and in European museums, libraries, and royal palaces. The Elisabet Ney Museum's collection of Elisabet Ney works and personal memorabilia is on long-term loan from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.     The $250,000 award will help underwrite a comprehensive restoration of Elisabet Ney's Formosa. The restoration will build on research of Ney's studio landscape, underwritten by a grant from the National Trust in 1995 and the successful restoration of the building in 1980 undertaken with funding and support from the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, Hyde Park Reading Club, Elisabet Ney Museum Association, Heritage Society of Austin, RepublicBank Austin, the Junior League of Austin, the Austin Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers and the Texas Historical Commission together with bond money from the City of Austin. The projected budget for the Ney comprehensive restoration is $750,000.     Past recipients in Austin of the Save America's Treasures award are the Moore/Andersson Compound, now the Charles Moore Center for the Study of Place, the Laguna Gloria Villa of the Austin Museum of Art, and LaSalle's La Belle Shipwreck and Artifacts.