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REALLY OLD AUSTIN: MARY COCHRAN BOHLS’ Unforgettable Stories - 01/04/2026
Journalist Michael Barnes reflects on the life of his close friend Mary Cochran Bohls who grew up at the Neill-Cochran House Museum and passed away on December 19, 2025.
Juneteenth Events Across Austin - 06/16/2025
Join us for a day of reflection, celebration, and community as we commemorate emancipation and the struggles and triumphs of those who fought for freedom and the ongoing journey towards equality.
Celebrate Juneteenth in Central Texas with 9 family-friendly events - 06/12/2025
Juneteenth Celebration at the NCHM will feature guided tours of the slave quarters, a barbecue lunch, and a gospel music performance by Chris D. Spivey & Co.
Austin Museum Hosts Mother's Day Embroidering Event - 05/11/2025
Families joined Sunday Funday: Embroidery at the NCHM surrounded by Ann Flemings’ art exhibit, Threads of Her Story.
The Neill-Cochran House Museum hosts Easter Egg Dye-o-Rama [Photo Gallery] - 04/19/2025
See photos from this free day of egg dyeing fun!
Lockhart Muralist Honors Enslaved History - 04/14/2025
Muralist Fidencio Duran discusses his narrative mural project at the NCHM, Give Us This Day (interview begins at 29:12).
City Awards Neill-Cochran House Museum Over $83,000 to Create Historic Digital Exhibit - 03/11/2025
The exhibit will use virtual reality to demonstrate how people interacted with the space in the past.
Old Election Signs Diverted from Landfills at 'De-sign Austin' Event - 11/17/2024
Sunday Funday: De-Sign Austin inspires creativity while teaching about adaptive re-use.
Two Alumni Discover the Legacy of Slavery in Austin, Texas - 09/01/2024
NCHM Director Rowena Dasch and Dr. Tara Dudley, both Princeton Alumni, speak with Princeton Alumni Weekly about the project to restore Austin’s last slave dwelling.
Neill-Cochran House Museum celebrates in observance of Juneteenth - 06/30/2024
The Daily Texan interviews guides, living historians, and guests of the NCHM Juneteenth Celebration. Hear voices, music, and sounds from the day!
West Campus museum memorializes Austin’s only intact slave quarters for Juneteenth celebration - 06/25/2024
The NCHM Juneteenth Celebration welcomes Austin to a day of joy and reflection. (Daily Texan)
Juneteenth Rodeo exhibition opens Saturday - 06/21/2024
A new exhibition called A Juneteenth Rodeo will be showcased at the Neill-Cochran House Museum. (Fox 7 Austin)
Insight: ‘A Juneteenth Rodeo’ exhibit happening this weekend - 06/20/2024
NBC KXAN features A Juneteenth Rodeo, Sarah Bird’s exhibit of photography of 1970s Black rodeos. (NBC KXAN)
'Juneteenth Rodeo' gallery tells stories of late 70s Black rodeos in Texas - 06/19/2024
CBS Austin highlights A Juneteenth Rodeo, Sarah Bird’s exhibit of photography of 1970s Black rodeos.
The Heart of Austin Beats Here: Visit city's only intact slave quarters - 06/18/2024
Reporter Michael Barnes gives an overview of the Reckoning with the Past project from start to finish. This was the front page story on this edition of the Statesman!
The Heart of Austin Beats Here: Visit the City’s Only Intact Slave Quarters - 06/18/2024
Two stories high, the back structure revealed few signifiers of its original employment.
Youth Naturalization ceremony in austin - 05/20/2024
The NCHM hosted a USCIS naturalization ceremony for new youth citizens. Dr. Karen Pope explains the connection.
gospel on the lawn at the nchm - 02/24/2024
The NCHM hosts Christopher D. Spivey & Co for a musical performance celebrating the roots of gospel music in Black history and culture.
Preserving History: An Interview with Dr. Rowena Dasch and Dr. Tara Dudley - 06/16/2024
An interview with Dr. Rowena Dasch and Dr. Tara Dudley on the completion of the restoration of Austin’s last intact slave dwelling. (Spectrum 1 News)
Six Ways to Celebrate Black History All Year Long - 02/17/2024
See six sites across Texas that illuminate Black history, including the NCHM.
Catch The Watchmaker’s Song at the Neill-Cochran House Museum - 12/12/2023
An interactive and culturally inclusive re-imagining of The Nutcracker, is back for its sixth season at the Neil- Cochran House Museum.
10 Best Museums in Austin to Visit and Explore - 12/09/2023
Through historically furnished spaces and multiple rotating art and history exhibitions, the NCHM conveys the history of Austin and Texas from the city’s founding in 1839 until 1930.
'Stories on the Lawn' returns to the Neill-Cochran House Museum - 08/28/2023
Stories on the Lawn is just what the name implies – a recurring event in which storytellers share stories with an audience gathered on a lawn, in this case the front lawn of the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Heritage Preservation Grant aimed at preserving historic Austin sites - 08/02/2023
The City of Austin grant program awarded $2.7 million to historic sites in Austin last year. This year’s recipients include the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Driving tour of African American history in central texas (pt 2) - 06/19/2023
In honor of Juneteenth, the Neill Cochran House is offering a driving tour of historic sites.
Driving tour of African American history in Central Texas (pt 1) - 06/19/2023
Fox 7 Austin News joined NCHM Director Rowena Dasch and Pease Park Conservancy Chief Operating Officer Chuck Smith at Pease Park, a stop along the Black West Austin Driving Tour.
Neill-Cochran House visitors repurpose campaign signs on De-Sign themed Sunday Funday - 01/08/2023
Discarded political campaign signs are repurposed for a Sunday Funday "De-Sign" community event at the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Nine enticing art exhibits to whet the appetite in Austin this January - 01/03/2023
Signs and Symbols: The Trees are Talking by Rejina Thomas gives a unique perspective on her own heritage, as well as the cultural ties that bind us across races and ethnicities.
austin found podcast ep. 84 - The Neill-Cochran HOuse Museum (Part 2) - 07/11/2022
The conversation continues as Rowena Dasch, Michael Barnes, and J.B. Hager discuss the NCHM’s arts and cultural programming, local freedom colonies, and the project to restore the NCHM Slave Quarters.
Austin Found Podcast Ep. 83 - The Neill Cochran House Museum (Part 1) - 07/05/2022
NCHM Director Rowena Dasch speaks with hosts Michael Barnes and J.B. Hager about the history of the Neill-Cochran House and it’s evolution into a historic house museum in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Austin.
Looking in at austin’s last (known) slave quarters - 06/24/2022
"It's locals. It's Austinites. And particularly children, because if as a child you're exposed to this breadth of knowledge, this importance of place in history, then you will grow up with that recognition inside of you." - NCHM Director Rowena Dasch on which museum guests are her priority.
urban slave quarters rediscovered in west campus - 05/08/2022
“Much of our history and knowledge about the past is lost because of the absence of buildings or just the ruins of them,” Dr. Dudley said. “One way to really get at understanding that built environment, whether it’s still present or not, is to repopulate those spaces.”
Reveal and Restore: Difficult History Through ArT - 05/01/2022
Nell Gottlieb talks to Fox 7 about Reveal and Restore, her exhibition on display at the NCHM Jan-May 2022.
Restoration of Slave Quarters Will Help Austin More Fully Tell Its History, Experts Say - 04/29/2022
A 12-month restoration of the slave quarters behind the NCHM at 2310 San Gabriel St in the West Campus neighborhood is set to begin this month.
Austin’s only remaining slave quarters is ‘our place’ and it matters - 04/22/2022
As Austin continues to experience explosive growth, we are losing sight of the history of the people who helped build this city and their stories – stories we will not find in any of our history books. (Includes audio interview)
Rediscovered Slave Quarters in West Campus helps tell the story of urban enslavement in Austin - 04/22/2022
“It's the last intact slave dwelling in Austin and a resource for all of us who would like to better understand our city's past.” says NCHM Director Rowena Dasch.
Austin's last remaining slave quarters is authentically reopening to the public - 04/21/2022
Austin’s only remaining intact slave dwelling is finally getting the TLC it deserves as it begins a $500,000, 12-month restoration that will take it back to the antebellum period this month.
CIVIL RIGHTS and wrongs podcast - 04/19/2022
NCHM Director Rowena Dasch and Dr. Tara Dudley (UT) sit down to discuss Reckoning with the Past, the restoration project centered on the NCHM Slave Quarters.
Neill-Cochran House Museum hosts a weekend for Community - 04/24/2022
Fox 7 reports on A Weekend for Community, the launch of restoration efforts at Austin’s last remaining slave dwelling.
One of Austin’s first black communities has been largely erased. This building tells the tale - 02/25/2022
The Jacob Fontaine Gold Dollar Building in West Campus is the last remnant of the Wheatville Freedom Colony.
Museum reckons with race in Austin while celebrating three exceptional black chefs - 02/24/2022
The museum will host a fundraiser on March 4th for the Reckoning with the Past project, featuring conversation and cuisine with three notable Black Austin chefs.
Museum reckons with race in Austin while celebrating three exceptional black chefs - 02/24/2022
The museum will host a fundraiser on March 4th for the Reckoning with the Past project, featuring conversation and cuisine with three notable Black Austin chefs.
Meet Rowena Dasch of the Neill-Cochran House Museum - 12/07/2021
“[O]ver the past five years, we have welcomed more than 30,000 people to our site and have broadened our audience well beyond educated history buffs (though we do love educated history buffs!).”
local artists featured at holiday art on the lawn event - 11/28/2021
“Everyone here is from the local area, so you’re helping support local artists during their holiday season,” says Karen Kincaid-Brady.
local museum acknowledges its history of slavery - 07/28/2020
Building on site of Neill-Cochran House Museum is Austin’s last slave quarters structure.
self-guided driving tours highlighting black history in west Austin extended throughout june - 06/22/2020
For the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day that marks the end of slavery in the United States, the Neill-Cochran House Museum hosted sold-out driving tours of west Austin to highlight its Black culture and historic siginificance.
austin museums starting to reopen more than a month after getting the go-ahead - 06/14/2020
"Being able to reopen and to share these stories and be a place where conversation can happen and hopefully civil discourse," said NCHM director Rowena Dasch.”
Museum show examines race and who built early Austin - 03/05/2020
“If These Walls Could Talk,” a richly embroidered show that explores race and class in early Austin, operates on five levels of perception.
'If These Walls Could Talk' at Neill-Cochran House Museum - 02/07/2020
A look at the major history and artistic collaboration.
If These Walls Could Talk, a collaborative exhibition - 01/31/2020
This spring, it presents the exhibition If These Walls Could Talk, placing ceramicist Ginger Geyer’s modern porcelain sculpture into the historic spaces of the museum. READ ARTICLE
The Artists Behind 'If These Walls Could Talk' Aim To Be 'Gentle Provocateurs' - 01/29/2020
If These Walls Could Talk is a collaborative art piece from actor Jennifer Cumberbatch and sculptor Ginger Geyer. It’s an ambitious undertaking, featuring dozens of Geyer’s porcelain works, several performances by Cumberbatch, filmed pieces, discussions and more.
New exhibition at Neill-Cochran House Museum - 01/20/2020
FOX 7 Austin’s Jacqueline Sarkissian gets more details about “If These Walls Could Talk”.
Meet Austin’s Memory Keeper - 11/01/2019
Neill-Cochran House Museum director, Rowena Houghton Dasch, reflects on sharing the stories of Austin’s history and helming a 60-year-old startup.
Blasts from the Past: Old Austin Homes Leave Clues for Surviving our Summers - 07/30/2019
“It was less humid in those days,” says native Austinite Mary Cochran Bohls, 92, “before they put in the lakes.”
She's 92 and Grew Up in What's Now an Austin Museum - 07/19/2019
When she was a child, did Mary Cochran Bohls, 92, slide down the polished banister of the Neill-Cochran House, now an Austin museum, while growing up in the handsome 1856 home?
Joy and Delight at Austin's Historic Neill-Cochran House Museum - 04/04/2019
This exquisitely wrought world, that brings both the familiar and the exotic, is on display now through April 28 at another Austin gem, the Neill-Cochran House Museum.
Neill-Cochran House Museum Keeps History Alive in Changing Times - 02/25/2019
Exhibits of antiques, artwork, and folk crafts tell stories of Texas in one of Austin’s oldest buildings, an 1856 house
A House Built on History: Neill-Cochran House Museum Offers a Glimpse into Austin's Past - 10/01/2018
Neill-Cochran House Museum offers a glimpse into Austin’s past.
In the House: Neill-Cochran House Museum Hosts 2017 Abner Cook Award Reception to Honor Joe Pinnelli - 05/05/2017
The Neill-Cochran House Museum recently hosted a benefit cocktail reception in the Museum’s Centennial Garden to honor Austin builder, contractor, and historic preservationist Joe Pinnelli with the Abner Cook Award.
West Austin Studio Tour Weekend 2: Our picks and highlights - 09/03/2016
Rain didn’t dampen the first weekend of the West Austin Studio Tour. Among the delights seen out and about on the tour were several pop-up exhibits.
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ABOUT THE NEILL_COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM
The Neill-Cochran House Museum is an independent nonprofit that preserves and reflects the experience of some of Austin’s earliest residents. Built in 1855, the house and slave quarters and the collections they display shed light on the local, individual, and political history of our always-growing city. Today, the Museum features rotating exhibits, a speaker series called "Modern Times," and free monthly events for the entire family. The main house is among the oldest residences still standing in Austin. The site is also home to the only remaining intact slave quarters in the city.
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