Austin Founder Lions Club

The Neill-Cochran House Museum and the Changing Face of Austin

  • 19 Nov 2020
  • 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM
  • via Zoom

The Neill-Cochran House Museum and the Changing Face of Austin

DATE: November 19, 2020  12:30 pm via Zoom


 Dr. Rowena Houghton Dasch
Introduced by Lion Patti Robinson

Dr. Rowena Houghton Dasch will speak about the history of the Neill-Cochran House Museum site from Austin's beginnings in 1839 up through the 1950s. The NCHM site was part of Austin's first great building boom in the 1850s and participated in and experienced Austin's many cycles of growth. Dr. Dasch's talk will cover the site's history and bring Austin history to life through the many people and institutions who passed through our doors.

About our speaker:

Rowena Houghton Dasch has led the Neill-Cochran House Museum as Executive Director since the end of 2013. She holds an MA and a Ph.D in American Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an AB in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. During her tenure at the NCHM, Rowena has focused on increasing the diversity of the displays, mounting a first-ever curated exhibition of paintings, installing a didactic display of silver-working methods, and overseeing annual exhibits in the museum’s new upstairs gallery. Her day-to-day work covers all facets of the museum’s operations and the historic property’s preservation, including planning and implementation of a major structural restoration project, annual fundraising, educational programming for adults and families, and collections management.


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