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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE
Texas Buildings
Buildings 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.
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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
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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE
- Categories:
Texas
Banks - Buildings Worthy of Your Interest
Brick
Collecting
Texas
Bridges - Iron bridges, railroad drawbridges, bascule bridges,
causeways and suspension
Carnegie
Libraries in Texas - Of the 1689 Carnegie Libraries built,
32 were in Texas.
Texas
Centennial - 1936 Texas Centennial projects
Texas
Churches - Churches in Texas
Cornerstones
- The first to be set - the last to be saved.
Texas
Courthouses - Texas courthouses. Illustrated with photos
or old post cards
Texas
Dance Halls
Texas
Depots - Texas railroad architecture from "cathedral" stations
to the lowly switching tower
Drive-by
Architecture - Buildings of special interest
Endangered
Buildings in Texas - Historic Properties of Texas
Texas
Gargoyles - Ugly is Beautiful. Scary, whimsical, and allegorical
details on Texas buildings that could afford them
Texas
Gas Stations - Abandoned, obsolete, put to new uses, defunct
or fictitious
Texas
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 everywhere
Texas
Lodges - Lodges in Texas
Texas
Monuments - Texas monuments & shrines
Texas
Museums - Museums in Texas
Pitted
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 Texas
Razed
in Texas - A look at our lost architectural heritage
Texas
Schoolhouses - The most modest of Texas buildings
Texas
Skyscrapers
Texas
Stores - Country Stores, General Stores, Drugs Stores, Feed
Stores
Texas
Theatres - America's most endangered buildings
Texas
Water Towers - The unsung tin men of Texas small towns
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Texas Architecture
- Special Subjects
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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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Historic
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...
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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.
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Schoolhouse:
Shiloh
School Gregg Co Maryanne Gobble 12-9-10
Shotgun
shacks cheap, practical by Delbert Trew 12-8-10
The famous "long skinny houses" that graced the West and later on
during the many oil booms and busts.
Architectural
Whimsy by Johnny Stucco 9-24-10
“Scholarly Distractions”
Rice University, Houston, Texas
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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.
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