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Corpus Christi Centennial Museum
Photo courtesy Rick Stryker , 2008 |
Corpus
Christi – Corpus Christi Centennial MuseumThis
little jewel of a building hasn’t been used as a museum since the 1970s, when
its art collection outgrew the space and it was replaced with the Art Museum of
South Texas on the bay. Located in South Bluff Park, it consists of one room sixty
feet long and forty feet wide with stucco exterior walls and plaster interior
walls on a concrete foundation. Funds for its construction were provided by the
Centennial Commission and Nueces County, and the land was donated by the City
of Corpus Christi.
There is no website.
Rick Stryker, Director of the Museum of Science and
History for the City of Corpus Christi said that it is presently leased out to
the Police Athletic League which is using it for a youth boxing program. The Daughters
of the Republic of Texas are now on the scene to save the building. The museum
is on the Park Avenue side of South Bluff Park, which is on Park Avenue and South
Tancahua.
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From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence", State of Texas,
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