City Council recently designated the LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse, 3004 Bagby St., as a City of Houston Protected Landmark. The clubhouse was Council 60's first meeting facility and gave the group a home base from which to advocate for equal social, economic, and political rights for Mexican Americans in Houston. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 60 building may seem modest in style, however, the two-story stucco building, originally built in 1907, was at the center of Mexican American political organizing in Houston during the 1950s and 1960s. The LULAC 60 building has been home to Project Head Start, SER-Jobs for Progress, and the National LULAC Housing Commission. The building, already in need of repair, was even more so damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. American Express awarded the LULAC Clubhouse a $140,000 grant to support the Clubhouse’s rehabilitation efforts. The LULAC Council 60 and C 60 Inc, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is working to assess the condition of the Clubhouse as well as a plan for reuse. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation says, “the LULAC Clubhouse proves that some of Houston’s old and seemingly ordinary buildings are anything but, and they deserve increased protection as irreplaceable landmarks of local history and community identity.”
