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ing further tolls in loss. The grandeur and
glory of so much history increasingly de-
clined into a state of disrepair.
Bill Ross, the Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Mitchell Historic Prop-
erties, helps explain what so many in Galves-
ton already know. “That Galveston’s treasure
of historic architecture would have all but
been lost if not for the lead and example set
by the Mitchell family.”
More than 30 years ago, George and Cyn-
thia Mitchell gazed upon the dilapidated
condition of Galveston’s once distinguished,
downtown, and determined to do some-
thing about it. They led the charge for a his-
toric preservation campaign modeled after a
similar initiative in Savannah, Georgia, that
ultimately saved so many structures which
Hotel Galvez & Spa is the only historic
beachfront hotel on the Texas Gulf Coast.