Downtown Hico Oprahouse Turned Store My husband loves road trips. And by loves, I mean he’d rather just get there than enjoy the journey. But recently he indulged me on one of our trips through the Texas Hill Country. I wanted to prove a point. See, a few months ago, I was reading some of the posts on a couple of Facebook pages for my hometown. It seemed to be a trend that most of the posts were complaints. Around that same time, I had also been reading a lot about how the en

There are moments when a town loses more than a building.On the night of December 19, my hometown of Winnsboro, Texas, lost a piece of its soul. Thee Hubbell House is gone.

116-year-old building ready to be restored In the heart of East Texas stood a 116-year-old bank building that had seen it all, booms, busts, and even a mid-century “modernization” that nearly erased its original charm. What was once a proud piece of small-town architecture had been covered in asbestos stucco during the 1950s, a popular upgrade at the time. Beneath that façade, however, the building’s true story was waiting to be uncovered. Uncovering the Past When the stucco