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TEXAS
ARCHITECTURE
Texas BuildingsBuildings
were the dreams of our ancestors in brick and mortar. These modest (and occasionally)
grandiose dreams lost to disaster have inspired us to record what remains - before
progress claims the survivors. |
| "We require from buildings,
as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, they are doing their practical duty
well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it - which is itself another
form of duty." - John Ruskin (1851) |
TEXAS
ARCHITECTURE- Texas Buildings CategoriesTexas
Banks - Buildings Worthy of Your InterestBrick
CollectingTexas
Bridges - Iron bridges, railroad drawbridges, bascule bridges, causeways
and suspensionCarnegie
Libraries in Texas - Of the 1689 Carnegie Libraries built, 32 were in
Texas. Texas
Centennial -
1936 Texas Centennial projectsTexas
Churches - Churches in TexasCornerstones
- The first to be set - the last to be saved.Texas
Courthouses - Texas courthouses. Illustrated with photos or old post cardsTexas
Depots - Texas railroad architecture from "cathedral" stations to the
lowly switching tower Drive-by
Architecture - Buildings of special interestEndangered
Buildings in Texas - Historic Properties of TexasTexas
Gargoyles - Ugly is Beautiful. Scary, whimsical, and allegorical details
on Texas buildings that could afford themTexas
Gas Stations - Abandoned, obsolete, put to new uses, defunct or fictitiousTexas
Grain Elevators - Grain elevators, silos ... Landmarks casting long shadows
Texas
Hotels - "Rooms With a Past" series
- Texas hotels built before 1950. Texas
Historic Homes
- Historic Homes
Texas Jails - The Texas county jails. "The Big House" may be in Huntsville,
but "The Small House" is everywhereTexas
Lodges - Lodges in TexasTexas
Monuments - Texas monuments & shrines Texas
Museums - Museums in TexasPitted
Dates - 165 Years of Texas Architectural History Written in Stone
Post Offices in Texas - Going Postal: Post Offices in Texas Texas
Preservation - Historic Preservation in TexasRazed
in Texas - A look at our lost architectural heritageTexas
Schoolhouses - The most modest of Texas buildingsTexas
SkyscrapersTexas
Stores - Country Stores, General Stores, Drugs Stores, Feed StoresTexas
Theatres - America's most endangered buildings Texas
Water Towers - The unsung tin men of Texas small towns |
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Home: Historic
Gaines-Oliphint House 4-1-12
Acknowledged by the Texas Historical Commission
as the oldest standing hand hewn log structure in the state. A double pen planked
log story and a half building with a dog trot... |
| Theatre:
The Texas Theatre
by Dana Goolsby 6-4-11
After nearly a century of tragedy and neglect, and a
host of closings and re-openings, the Texas Theatre, crown jewel of Palestine,
has been salvaged and reborn. |
| Steel
House by
Byrone Brown 5-5-10
Sculptor and architect Robert Bruno has bequeathed to us
his Steel House, sometimes referred to as “The Metal Mansion”, just outside of
Lubbock in Ransom Canyon. |
| | Texas
Centennial
Index by Sarah Reveley
During the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration, the state
built memorial museums, restored historical structures, improved parks, erected
statues of important Texans, and intalled over 1,000 historical markers. |
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