African-American lodge and school considered "endangered" by Texas preservation group

AUSTIN, TX -- ...Livestone Lodge #152 in Grand Prairie (and the Booker T. Washington School of Wellington, Collingsworth County) are among the 13 sites that Preservation Texas, Inc. has named to its fifth annual list of Texas’ Most Endangered Historic Places... Built in 1903 on 1801 Beaumont Street in Grand Prairie, Livestone Lodge #152 was constructed near the African American community known as “The Line,” which was a row of homesteads owned by recently freed slaves... According to residents, the Lodge building was also used as a school house and church... The Livestone Lodge #152 suffers from neglect and the lack of funds needed to preserve the building. MORE

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If anyone wants to donate money to restore this building, or provide us any help with the restoring of this building, please send all corespondance to the following address below.

Live Stone Lodge #152
C/O Building Preservation Fund
P.O. Box 531494
Grand Prairie, TX 75053

www.livestonelodge152.com