Women’s History Month 2022
This year, Old City Park invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month by supporting local, women owned businesses. Below you can read about 9 businesses and the impressive women who
This year, Old City Park invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month by supporting local, women owned businesses. Below you can read about 9 businesses and the impressive women who
A message from our Director of Education and Interpretation, Heather Rodriguez: This blog post is a part of a larger exhibit entitled “This is Dallas” that includes both a satellite
Old City Park, Dallas’s first public park and one of the largest green spaces near downtown Dallas, today announced that Michael Meadows has been named
This year, Old City Park invites you to celebrate Black History Month by volunteering your time to organizations that support or are run by members of the Black community in
Guest post by Peggy Helmick-Richardson, History Educator and our textile expert Last April, Old City Park opened its doors to the arts in a whole new way. Three rooms in
Guest post by History Educator, Kristi Nedderman The building that we call the Alamo Saloon was originally built as a general store in 1904 in Snow Hill, Texas. If you
Dear Friends, Living history has a very different meaning these days, doesn’t it? As we all navigate these extraordinary times, I wanted to give you a glimpse into what’s happening
Old City Park is more than just the staff, our circle is much wider than that. We are starting a blog post series about the whole OCP family so you
At this time last year, Old City Park was facing some pretty big challenges. We didn’t know what would happen with our city funding. Our budget was up in the
We’ve all been very concerned about the ongoing deterioration of the Blum House. We’ve had many conversations as a staff, and we realized that Blum needed to close indefinitely,
UPDATE: The Dallas County Medical Examiners have taken Alice to do further research. In a few months, they’ll be able to tell us her age and ethnicity. When their research has
By now, many of you have seen the devastating news that our nearest neighbor, the Ambassador Hotel, burned to the ground last night. It cannot be salvaged. This building has