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HomeMy WebLinkAboutArchitecturalTourofCollegeStation_Fox_Cite41B R I I — t — I — I —> S T i: i' I N N F o x A N A R C H ! I K C; T U R A L T O U R The Ric e Desig n Allianc e gratefully dedicate s thi s guideboo k to SARA H. AN D JOH N H. LlNDSEY H Supplement to Cite 41 : \ The ArcliitL'trurL' and Design Review of Houston, \ Spring 1998. © Rice Design Alliance. \ I Reproduction of .ill \ or pan of this publication \ without permission \ is strictly prohibited. Managing editor Barrie Scardii Graphic design \ Minor Design Group \ Photographs Hester + Hardnwjv B R N The Bryan townsil e was surveyed by Theodor e kosse engmcc i leu the I louston & Texas Central Railway , on a 640-acr e tract in Brazos Count y tha t the Brazoria Count y planter, William I. Hryan, a nephew ol Stephe n I Austin , hail conveye d in I Sol) tor constructio n ol th e railroad line I he I lousto n \ I cxas C entral was httil l to tunne l the wealt h ot the Hrazos River valley, th e foremos t cotto n productio n area in Texas in the mi d l*)th century , throug h I louston . The outbreak ot the Civi l Wa r halte d railroa d constructio n at Millican , in the souther n part of Brazos County . Th e I l&T C tracks di d not reach Bryan unti l IK(><>-67 The railroa d passed through the townsil e in a north-sout h alignmen t anii Kosse oriente d Bryan's gridiro n street plan accordingly. But he rotate d th e boundarie s ol th e townsil e 45 degrees oi l a north-sout h align - ment, si) that , in plan , the street gri d appears to be inscribe d in a diamon d Ther e are shill s jn the street gri d on al l sides ci) th e origina l townsite , wher e it changes directio n to confor m to older boundar y alignment s Th e gri d inscribed in a diamon d was a patter n that kosse repeated lor a number ot th e lownsites he surveyed lo r the I louston \ Texas ( entral between I lousto n and Dallas These include d I learne, Calvert, Bremond , kosse, Thornton , Croesbeck . Mexia , Rice, an d hnni s kir.se adopted itie Broad Street model foi the Bryan town plan Hrvaiis pnneip.il thiiniiighliire is the MMI-loot wide Main Avenue Ttie blocks fac- ing Main are only n li.ilt Mock deep The Mam Avenue storefronts hack directly onto adjacent parallel streets the main line ol the I IsiTC on tlie east, and Bryan Avenue on tile west — an attribute that reappears in Hremond and ( alvcil Architectural historian lolin darner's observation about I'Mli-cenltirv ( alvert was equally tnie ol Bryan: the railroad land the LIIIIIII I trade which occasioned Its construction) was the constituent li< i il l iiikim : .11 urn in the Brains kive l vallcA II K v a H I I Exii the Highway n Bypass ni Briarcresl Drive, head cast. .Hid alter a righ t on Buonvillc , procee d to Coppcrhcl d Driv e Thi s is where Bryan must resembles Colleg e Statio n A ki t mil d < oppcihck l leads |i.ivl S,iiu 1 Illusio n I Icillcill.lr v St 111 ml to the gated Courtland l Place subdivision. ()n axis, at th e end ol the entranc e street, is th e newest contender for Bryan's grandest house an enormous Highlan d Park styl e Frenc h chatea u by I >allas architec t Richard Drummon d Davis I I')1)')! Return on lioonvill e Road to Willia m loel Brvan Parkway, the n tur n ii(>!n ont o lioonvill e At di e Boonville Ursulini'-t Kbor n intersection is a vacant tract that has heen the site ol tw o ol Bryan's most architecturally significant buildings Bot h wer e destroyed by fire I he Vill a Mari a Ursulin e Academy ( l'X)2l . a ^'rl••' schoo l established by the Ursulin e sisters ol Galveston, occupied a Victorian Gothi c academic buildin g designed hv N I Clayto n ol Calveslo n Th e academy close d in \')2') Alte r th e buildin g burne d th e properl y was acouircd hv Willia m S I iowell , Ir . a grandso n ol the wholesale grocer I >i I W I lowc-ll I Iowell ha d heen in the diplomati c seivice ,MK\ w,is lust secre- tary at th e LI S Embassy In Paris in the early I'MOs when the chancer y ther e was designed hv th e Ne w York architects Delan o & Aldncl i In 1938, I lowed commissioned Delan o & Aklric h to design his expansive countr y house on thi s site \ he long, lo w I Iowel l Hous e laced lioonvill e its gatehouse and driveway laced ( (shorn Th e I Iowell I louse was IIHIIMK buildin g in I cxas hv Delan o & Aldric h At 'i s Alle n Idles t I ane, oi l Oshom. is the last in a series ol houses built by several generations ol th e Alle n fami - ly, wh o operated Bryan's best known ediKalion.i l InstitU- linn Min i \. ademv I he last Iniinlv nieniher to administer the academy. Na t B. Allen , Jr., buil t this ranch typ e house I l">52l Its combinatio n ol materials marks it as the wor k ol Uiv.nl architects Norto n & Mavhek! Farther west along Uisulinc St lie th e R. V, Armstron g Hous e I'M I I ai 1200 Ursulin e ami next doo i the Rivers O. Allen Hous e l I'M t) at I 120. bot h set deeply back from th e Street Across th e street at 1113 Ursulin e is the Na t II . Alle n Hous e tgnominiously , the his- toric Alle n Academy campus is no w a Federal Prison I am p Ai th e Ursultne-E , 22nd intersection H k i ,\ ,v is the campus's onl y remainin g historic building . I h e Spanish Mediterranea n style Memoria l Hal l (l'>24), the wor k ol AstM architecture professor Henry N lim e Robertson St leads to E 21st Street, the n in Bradley St., then to E. Marti n Luthe r Kin g St . This is the neighborhoo d <>t Cand y Hill , on e of Bryan's historicall y Alrica n American neighbor - hoods liivausbes t know n to me m porarv writer , Sunny Nash , gre w up at Bradley an d Dansby in Candy Hil l in ih e l')50s and (>0s, at the end ot the segregation era She vividl y describes tins neigh In>rhood in her memoi r fiii/iiiitiiKt IJIJM'I Shot' itl Woolu will's I t'Wfi), an d an adjoinin g ncighbo i hood calle d Graveyar d Line , closer to th e Bryan City Cemetery , where residents set up tables in the streets lo r nightl y domin o games. Nash refers to her neighborhood's 'awkward , small tow n urban-rural balance " .in attribut e that periaill s not only to Candy Hil l but IIII.IL h ol ol d Btviin Cfcl i hunk liA („n'i/rr Baptist' hunt &&B Alfiikni.il Mill/. A/Ini Aiii.li • >N | Proceeding wesl on Marti n Luther Kin g leads one through Bryan's Frcednien Town neighborhood , wher e Shiloh Baptist Churc h i MHO i at 500 E. Martin Luther Kin g and N I lousio n the city's oldest Alrica n American congregation , has occupied us site since INTO The norther n tier ol Rosses original tow n plan was ihe historicall y Alrican - American, workin g class, and immigrant sector ol Bryan Twi n towers and a geodesic dome give th e Endtime Evangelica l Pentecosta l Churc h ai 5(M W Marti n Luther Kin g an cschatologica l aspect The Galile e Baptist Churc h 11972) at NOH N Logan and vi I Hth was designed bj < ollege Station archiiec i Davi d C. Woodcock ; ih e steeple was the congregation s luiislun g lout h Rober l C . Nea l Elementar y Schoo l 11998) at W Marti n Luther Kin g and N Randolph is one ol a number ol sinkin g postmodern publi c schools hv Bryan architects Patterson Associates. Th e complex has a strong civi c presence, which is amplilie d by public recreational Facilities In the city's Nea l Park, also designed by Patterson Associates followin g W Marti n Luther Kin g to fv'ulnii ( NMIE I «? its conclusio n past the ex -Carve r Llcmenlar y School I'M'' Norto n \ M.wlicld i and the ex Kemp Senio r Hig h Schoo l I 1<>(>3 E Marl Merrill). one duels that the rural nl Sunny Nash's "urban- rural" kilani r assL-its usch wit h supnsmg rapidit y A t 90 0 N Packer Ave and W 18th is th e J . B. Leonard Hous e It IK75 I, a Victoria n cottag e with a kic k roo l over th e inset veranda Historia n and preservationist Marlen e Klizahel h Het k believes thi s may he on e ol the oldest buildings in Bryan. Th e cedar trees thai surround the house give it the loo k ol a rural homestead Cedars seem to have hecn the pick-lie d m-v o l I'Uh-ceutury Uiyan /iryju r om/>rrs> * WaltbotOt ( o The Lawrence She d ot th e Bryan Compres s an d Warehouse Co . complex in the KKKI bloc k ol N. Bryan Avenue ic I'Ht M is one ol the most intac t reminders ol Bryan's identificatio n wit h cotton an d the railroad Th e 6-bay, metal surlaced shed with its saw-toothe d profiles is striking in us simplicit y and repetition Across the streel are a row o) wooden duplex collages, a residential complemen t to th e working landscape represent- ed by th e cotto n sheds and the i.iilrn.ul li.ii.ks \d|oinm g the sheds on the south are a pairol 1950s mode m smic tares, the Bryan Centra l Tir e Station Dril l Towe r .11 SO? N . Bryan Avenue and , across llie street the Bryan Centra l Fire Statio n at S(M N Bryan Avenue I lacin g W Martin Luther Kmg t These were ihe onl y tw o public buildings that Caudill , Rowlett, Scul l SI Associates designed lo i the t its' ol Hrvan 1 I'JSl i Next doo r to the lir e statio n is a railroad-era land- mark, th e Bryan Ice Co . Buildin g ' I'M 2 I at H()(l N . Mai n Avenue and Marti n Luther Kin g Built In the Housto n Ice & Brewing Co.. its distinctiv e scalloped gable and high-se t sidewalk terminat e th e vista down Mai n Avenue Across the street, at 725 N. Bryan, is the how suin g iruss roofe d Scardino Garage I 19451 The blocks ol Mai n between Bryan fir ( 0 limUiuti I'unicd ituu'iiiiiir J.' •. tn I itjtitil Ftrr Sltttiou Ihill Tflll'fr |» 20th and 22nd were once part ol ih e G. S. Parker Lumber Co . comple x — the colto n gi n opera- tions on the west side an d th e lumber yar d on ihe east The lumbe r yar d sheds survive, as does the offic e buildin g (I'M I) at 419 N. Mai n an d E. 22n d Across ih e street, the entire west-side block Iron t is lille d wil h one-story brick building s which represent the early 2(lth-cenlur y storefronts characteristic not onl y ol liryan hut othe r Brazos Valley town s It is such individuall y unexceptional buildings as these that give Mai n Av e its strong - form urbanity , the only such space in Bryan or College Station . Th e buildings at 406-40 0 N Main contai n a cornerstone dated l'KH). whic h identities 1 he m as th e Alle n Smit h Buildings Main Avenue widen s al 23r d Streel . marking th e transition fro m the blue-colla r downtow n sector tn the middle-class uptow n sector Al2l'tN Mai n Av e aud i 24t h rises downtow n Bryan's mini-skyscraper , the 7-story Varisc o Building (1948). Built by Brazos A Varisco . th e most prosperous member ol Brazos I 0111m s Sicilian community , it was designed bv Bryan i n Inn 1 ts rhdi p t , Nun . ii- and S C I' Vosper Sam Vosper's touc h is visible il l the building's modernistic terra cotl a spandrel panels and crownin g Gree k Irets Despite its highrise aspira- tions, the Varisc o Building is securely Integrated Int o the small tow n streelscape ol Mai n Avenue The crossroads ol downtow n Bryan are Mai n an d 25lh I now Willia m loel Bryan Parkway I In th e early 20t h century , Bryan's major linancial insiit u lions staked out thi s intersectio n Dallas s lore- most corporat e architect s ol the pre-Depression era. Lang & Witchell . designed th e An Dcc o jewel ol downtow n liryan , the limestone-cla d ex-Firs t State Bank & Trus t Co . Building at 200 N. Mai n I 19291. Th e insistent parapel decorations suggest that this was planne d as the base ol a multi-story buildin g Across liryan Parkway at 120 N. Mam Av e lav ihe competi - tion, th e ex-Firs t Nationa l Bank Buildin g (1919), a small beautifully detailed , limeston e and brick laced, neo-Renaissance strongbox constructed by Bryan's oldest bank lus t Nationa l was ih e Bryan First .V.ifuw i flin t Iknllnui ft R V A N\ 1 Hold /.i &ili .ju.l lh 1 Jiinii f lir.jffr lanulv hank William I Bryan's descendants are still connected wu h n Ai in n N Mai n and W 26th, ihi'4-sior y E, H . Astl n Buildin g (1l)15> housed Bryan's thir d hank. the Cit y Nationa l Hank Like tile Varisc o Buildin g the; Asti n Buildin g tils inio ihe downtow n street scene, despite its height. The crow n floating over th e pylo n o l the Quee n Theater at I 10 S, Main Ihv Dallas movi e theater archi - tect lack (.orga n & Associates1 is a downtown landmark Th e 7-slor v I .a Salle Hote l at IM S Mai n and W 27th l l')2K> was designed hv Austi n archilecl (it-orgc I. Wallin g for businessman R W I lowel l across Main Ave , Iro m th e origina l site oj the Hs Ft passenger station Across W 27th Street, the dark red bric k J. W . Howel l Buildin g at 200 S, Mai n Av e i I906 ) housed th e wholesal e grocery compan y founde d b y R W Howell's lather Both th e L a Salle an d th e Howel l Building are due lo he rehabilitated as a hote l and confer - ence center by Housto n develope r Morga n Hil l (1998, Michae l C.aertner. architect ) The bloc k on th e east side ol Main , runnin g Iro m l : 26t h to E Z8th , is tw o block s lon g In Kosse's town plan, thi s doubl e bloc k was an open square thai stretche d east to Regent Street and was bisected hv the H&T C tracks. In the I9d i i i niiii v In e standing buildings iw u hml i on tins unbounde d square, whic h explains the unusual lackol block-Iro m continuit y Bryan's Victoria n ulv hall , whic h burne d in I'Mi'i stood near th e loth Street intersection It was eventually replace d by the I'alace Theater , whic h collapsed in I'Wi . leaving onl y the stage house intact Th e Mallie s Croup ol Housto n wit h David C Woodcoc k ol College Statio n incorporat - ed th e stagehouse int o Schtilman Palate Theate r p, rl. !'""• walled open l g )j ; si I air amphitheate r and urba n k ; U J l l J , m [ i | ;i park Bryan's red brick-lace d I'uMn blmiry Masonic Hal l at 107 S Mai n Ave l 1910) an d its red brick Carnegie Publi c Librar y at I I I S Mai n Ave i 1903 I were buil t as Irec-standin g buildings, Th e library is the oldes t remaining C amcgic library building in Texas It is a n early wor k ol F !:. Ciesecke, the lust prolessoi ol aichitectur e at Texas Ast M and Colleg e Archilec l Irom th e 1900s |H (t v A N through the I'HI k Th e Masonic buildin g was designed by th e Dallas architect s I landers \ Mandcrs and displays the impac t of early 20lh - century Chicag o School progressivism on lames I (landers Tw o railroad-sid e hotels surviv e wit h alterations I Alle n Myer s huil t th e Hote l Charles at 201 S, Mai n II9I2I , bu t i t was his son Charles who had Atkinso n JS Sanders give n a streamline d relacing ! I'tW i Althoug h covered wit h porcelain enamel panels the ihree-sinr v Hote l Bryan at 2 I 1 S Mai n I I'M I! by I )can & Ciesecke exhibits a n architectural kinshi p to th e Masonic Hal l in its red brick lacin g and hippe d roo t Note ho w th e rear wal l ol th e brick-buil t Gran d Lumber Compan y Buildin g ai 202 S Bryan Av e i now (>l d Bryan Marketplac e Panabc-Ila's Cran d Cafe, and the Children s Museum ol the Brazos Valley) curves along the alignmen t ol th e International is Crea l Norther n Railroad Hack The l&( >N entered Bryan in I'M HI. its main line was route d along W 27l h belor e arcin g to th e south ( In S Brvan one is verv aware ol th e backs ol th e business building s that lace Main . Sunny Nash recounts In fttgtaama Didn't Shop at Woolutortb'i that ther e was a racial undertone to this spatial arrangement. African-American s di d then business Irom the Bryan Ave rear ol calcs and shops, rather than th e Ma m Ave. fronts. Presiding ove r the west edge ol downtow n is St. Andrew's Episcopal Churc h I'll 4 l at 2 1 7 W 26th Street and S Parker, th e oldest chinc h build - ing in Bryan Its stout , brick in M I loihi c lowe r is a local landmark . Th e church's Asti n Memoria l Parish Hous e I l')2(l | is b y Colleg e Statio n archi - tects LaRoche \ Dunn e Across th e strce l al 2 If) W 2f.l h th e U.S . Post Offic e [1915 , < iscai Wcndcioth Supcivisin g Aichiieno t di e I K'.isurv oiler s a classical complemen t alon g with a basement-leve l courtyar d Th e liv e oak trees tha i begin to line W 2fit h Street an d adia cent streets identif y the Wes t Side has having Once been one ol Bryan's elite neighborhood s .- •- " ^ s ^ ^ E J f c v \ / A l*he grandest house o n I ii iVaa J Bryan's West Side is the •' _' *• S M Roger Q. Asti n Hous e al IJU'I F ^ J I U S S i m ^ 26th Street and N ••^V. " w f -1 Logan I l'*22 l designed hy Astin HolHf I )allass lore-most eclectic archilecl. II B. Thomso n A l MKl S Congress Avenue an d W 2(>th is the imposing Colonia l Revival-styl e Georg e W Smith Hous e I'M I At loss the hig h embank Mill1 \lri P.irkri Tin Heust mem nl the l&C N tracks, harkin g back In an earlier era. is the Milto n Parker Hous e ol c 1885 at 200 S Congress and W 27th . a suburban Victorian villa , Its ground s enclosed with a cast iron fence Parker was a cotton merchant, partner in the Parkcr-Astin Hardwar e Co., an d on e o l a number of locall y impor - tant businessmen wh o in the late IKdOs, move d wit h the advance of th e H&T C Irorn Millican to Uryan Not e the (•ale piers at W 27t h and S Randolph and the line ol cedar trees leadin g towar d the I'arker House In th e 100 block ol S Randolp h visible up the driveway behind the cottage at 608 W 27t h Street, is th e corrugated, galvanized, sheet metal-surfaced Tin House that Colleg e Statio n architec t and As.M prolessor (.eral d Malle i buit l i \'IHH • Whatever its pretensions migh t once have been the Wes t Side neighborhoo d no w absorbs Mallei's low-tec h vernacular as comfortabl y as H U Thomson s Swiss Avenue grand manner Tucked withi n the curve ol the kCN track at 201 S I'arkei Ave is the tin y Templ e Freda I I'M 1i once home to Bryan's Reform lewish co n gregation an d a very early wor k of the Housto n architect loseph linge r and his partner 1 S Gree n In the nest block , at Wi S Parker Ave . is th e much mor e conspicuous St. Anthonys ( atholi i ( liui.i i I''.' ' designed lot Bryan's Sicilia n parish bv Housto n architect Mauric e I Sullivan as a scaled-down version of the 12th-century churc h of San Michele. Pavia Adjacen t to th e lor mer site of Si losephs Hospita l is the modernisti c Gran t Clini c I 1939) at 308 W 2Slh St and S Sterling , an early wor k ol Willia m I' Nash , now th e dean ol Hrvan architects < .I.H./I StflfMtn PtMBB l/i'Hv [ipprf'/i r • !.: ,Sl An\bony\ Moving westward alon g W 2Hih . one passes out o l th e origina l towmit e at S Congress, a iransi- Hon made apparent bv th e gri d shift < Inly seven blocks fro m Ma m Avenue , one is suddenly on th e outskirts ol tow n A lelt ont o C onimercial lakes one pasl ih e Tampic o Caf e at Commercia l an d loll ()hve , an authentic slice ol backwoods Bryan Nearb y at 12(11 Ridgcdalc in another ueigllboihood spun oi l the Kosse gri d is a mod - < m [,Hiiiir..r- BeiiMiIaiiillemeiil.n l Sill.m l I I 0 5 H designed bv Willia m fc" Nash wit h A&M architecture instructor I farrv S Ransom and Ston e & Pitts ol Beaumont Althoug h ( RS made us repu- tation wit h moder n school design in th e 1950s u never designed a public schoo l in Bryan. Nash s Hen Mila m is th e lown's representativ e schoo l complex ol llu s perio d I I.irrv Ransom worke d as an occasional designei lo r CRS and Nash Man y ol (he vonn g architecture faculty at As;M in th e I'l il k wen pai t nu n ili sigm is In ! ( l\S .mi ! oil n i local firms This distende d territor y reconnects wit h th e Kosse grid at ih e en d of S Bryan Ave . the south ti p ol th e original lownsit e Th e Victorian stvle Georg e Samuel Parker Hous e (HOI) S. Bryan, 1898,- remodeled as a one-story house followin g a lire in I'M") is located across Beck Slreet fro m the com - pact, manorial slvle Charles MyroH S. Myer s Hous e I BOO Beck, c l'M2 i Alic e Myer s Kyl e (a subsequent owne r ol th e I'arkei 1 louse wit h her husband, A&M dean Edwi n I Kyl e I and C'hark s Myers were th e sihlmgs ol Bryan lan d subsequent- ly Housto n I landscape architec t I Alle n Mvers. Ir Their lather, the senior I Alle n Myers , had been one ol ih e transplante d Millica n merchants S. Hrvan leads to W 28th . whic h crosses Mai n and the H&T C tracks Al S Tabo i and 201 I 27th St is the ex-Brya n Municipa l Buildin g I IU2'l i a modernisti c cast stone cil v ball and lir e station bv the Austi n architects Ciesecke 5c Harri s Bertram I (iicscck c was th e son ol Prolessor 1- E Giesecke I he cornel ol I: 27t h an d S Regcul is anchored by thecx-Wilkerso n Memoria l Clini c 1931 i by Wac o architect Cabc Lewis. Th e pre- sent Bryan Public Librar y ( I'»<•'). I I ail Merrell , Ir ) I u es [In Slun n ipal lliiililni g at 200 E. 27t h Street an d S. Regent 11 occupies what was once th e f LCTC I'asseugei BryanMtwidpaitiaildkf Station block A t H00 I;, 2(>th Street and S Washingto n is the most architecturall y stgnilicant buildin g in down - B (I V A N I 5 town Bryan. I hi ' extensive- ly aliereii Hrazos Clonnl y Courthouse an d Jail l''s>, Caudill , Rowlcl l Scott * Associates] (. RS abandoned the monumen- taluy traditionally associated BmM' *"»''"""""' M nl i I cxas courthouse s lo r n suburban si ale and spa- liality indebte d to then si hools i.t ill . period "I Ins was th e lirst importan t modernist county court - house in Texas, and it is Bryan's most Famous mod - ern buildin g Th e 2<>th Street sideol the courthouse, faced with hard red pavin g bric k and polishe d traver- tine, is lairl v intact but th e one-story courtyard - centered wing s on the Bryan Parkway side have been subsumed withi n an elephantine rear ,iddi tion I lack W C umptn n s. Associates) Mirrorin g the scale ot th e CR S courthouse is th e one stu n Bryan Utilitie s Buildin g I 1967) at MW S \V Islingto n AM and I JHth « il h Ms .11(11 ul.ited concrete roo t plate bv Willia m I- Nas h Backing up to this spatiallv amorphou s cluster ol public buildings is th e present Bryan Cit y Hal l | l'»HH Williamson Croup i at 3(H) S Texas Av e an d I 2''t h Assertivel y iatinj j Colleg e Station , i t exhibit! an aggressive applicatio n ol maroon-col - ored u'llecliv e glass. Today Texa s Avenu e divides downtow n I m m Bryan's east side neighborhood s as lorceltill y as the H&T C tracks once di d ()riginall y calle d Dallas Av e , Texas was renamed ( 'ollcgc Ave 111 the early 20t h century. Durin g th e first ball ol the 2tllh centtiry . the blocks ol S ( ollcgc betwee n E 27th an d E 31st streets were Bryan's residential ((rand avenue In the mid-I'HJOs, th e connectio n between S Colleg e Ave and S Texas Av e was re- engineered so that Texas loo k priorit y and th e name ol thi s portio n ol the street was change d W reflect this Us rol e also change d to that ol an urban highway , th e primar y commercia l stri p ot Hryan and Colleg e Statio n Th e banks deserted Main Ave . movin g three block s cis t to Texas Ave into tree-standing pavilions surrounde d by parkin g lots In the l')Ji(ls. most ol the hanks move d again, away 1mm downtow n altogether Bryan's oldest Roman C athohc parish Si . Joseph's Catholic Churc h I 1959) at 600 E 26t h Street and N Preston, Is Bryan architect W R Hid e I II tt V A N J u Illy,™ dr y Mull Malthews's tribut e to MacKi e & Kamrat h s Si lohn Th e Divin e in Housto n At'Mill : Brvan I'arkway and N. Pierce, th e poin t ol gri d break, lies Travi s Elementar y Schoo l ( 1929), designe d by Gicscck c »> I larris in th e linear Ar t Dcc o styl e thai they employe d (or th e Municipa l Building downtown From th e last decade ol the I'tt h cen- tury wel l Int o the 20th . one ol Bryan's most prolif - ic builder s was the English hor n Charle s I'- Icnkins wh o built th e Edwar d J. Jenkins Hous e at 60 7 E. 27l h St 1 1895 1 lo r his brother, a phar- macist Historia n Margaret CulbertSOn has deter- mined that this lowere d and shingle d house was based on a design by the Knoxvill e architec t and house plan publishci ( iCOrgC W Barber At 509 I 18t h Si and S Houston Av e is th e Firs t Methodis t Church I. I')5l , 1955) by Housto n architect Edwar d Bodet, a stream- lined neo-Cothi c churc h lacei l wit h limestone, like St Mary's Not e th e ligural carvin g perche d near the to p ol its attenuate d tower . fmltrm Hon* Wher e the gri d shihs directio n on I 2*>tb one enters the East Side- Historic Distric t in th e Phillip s Addition , a locus ol hisior n |.I I si p..111.111 ill,iii s in Brvan \nolb i 1 imposing Colonia l Revival house is thai ol Mrs . James H. Asti n (1907), matriarch ot the Asli n lamily, by Wac o architects Messer & Smit h at 600 E 2')t b Si an d S. Hil l Th e W. Oli n Sanders House 11910) at ol d E. 29t h Si . was the home of Bryan architect W Oli n Sanders, Ir , and is si ill owned by member s ol his lamil y Th e Edwar d Hall Hous e at ol I I 2*)ih St I 1902) contribute s to the signilicanc e ot the distric t Housto n archi - tect I Rodney Tabor , a member ol th e first class to graduate in architecture Irom A&M , designe d the Alliste r M. Waldro p Hous e 1 1910) at 615 1 2<«h St. an d S. Baker Th e popularity ol progressive architecture 111 Bryan is attested by the Dr . Seborn C. Richardson House at ti l I E 2"t h Al the edge ol I h e district at 307 S. Coulte r Driv e and I- 29th is the columned, neo-Georgian styl e Robert H. Butle r Hous e (c l*M7 l by Willia m E Nash I he grandest house on th e East Side , vyin g i n size wit h the Asli n House on the Wes t Side, is the Eugene Edg e Hous e al 6()<J S. Ennis St., between 31st an d 311th fc 102(1; buil t hv a Mai n £i/<)r / lomr ( fllNll / Ave. clothie r and attribute d to the Russell Kmw n Compan y ol Housto n The McMichael-Wilso n Hous e at 7121 JOthSl 11903] Is a grandly scaled C I lenkinshuil i house The Willia m R. Cavit t Hous e (1876) at 713 E. 30t h St . an d S. Haswell is Bryan's most famous Victorian house and one <it (lie old - est building s In the city It occupies a half-bloc k site In the distric t li is especially notabl e lor the splendid a I lee ol cedar trees irainin g the Iront walk Bot h theCavit l and McMichael-Wilson houses were rehabilitated bv A&M Professor and Mrs. I'aul Van Riper Willia m I Bryan's grandson Travi s B. Brya n occu - pied th e house at ft 15 I; Kit h St and S I (urchin s Members ol the lirya n family stil l liv e in the I'lullips Additio n Anothe r notabl e bouse built b v C. 1 lenkins is th e his t Eugene Edge Hous e at 50 8 E. 30t h St. and S Hil l i 19021 W Oli n Sanders Ir produce d several houses on his home territor y Th e Wifme r R, McCulloug h House at 60 0 E. 32n d St and S Haswel l is a onc- simv I rent h provincia l style In •use while at Bt3 5 I mils St .nul l -Hi d is the picturesque manori- al sivlej . M. Jones Hous e t I'H I i Sanders and his partner I IS Atkinso n Collaborate d wit h (.icseck e 6 Harri s on th e imposin g Stephe n l:. Austi n Hig h School l 1939! at HOI S Knnis St and E 12nd Austin anchors the intersectio n wit h its flamboy- ant angled corner entrance, a restatement ol the Cicscckc firm's Marti n I lig h Schoo l In Laredo Near it , at 715 E lis t St an d S. Ennis. is the Spanish style Roy C. Ston e Hous e I I"25 ) On e o l th e most imposin g bouses in the East Side dis- tiicl is the Hudson-Harriso n Hous e i IH9ft) at 6I 6 I: lis t and S Haswell. moved to this site in 19H4 and restored bv Dr and Mrs. I. Russell Bradley AtE. lis t St. and 701 S Texas Ave. is the Searcy Clinic i 1950), a low-lying . Frank Lloyd Wright- inspired suburban prole s sional buildin g laced wit h limestone and designed by Bryan (latei San Antonio) architect I. Brooks Martin . Next doo r to it at 705 S \I. \ii . ;M,! ff */i**? Ill HI Ml S'trfiJifii F Ainln i Hulk sJi.in! I li/l. ifi( Apartment I .iti.dlf Houst \ur. V < ll'l k Texas Ave is the J. H. Conwa y Hous e the last ol the ol d "Colleg e Avenue ' gran d avenue houses Where Texas Ave bends to the southeast one enters th e ol d "new" highwa y (the "old " highwa y w.isS colleg e this is th e curve that was re-eng i neered in Texas lavo r in th e 1960s) Th e head- quarters ol Butler, In c the contracto r and pre- engineered metal buildin g manufacturer at 1504 S Texas, is an early wor k ol liryan architec t W R Dcdc Matthew s (c 195ft>. Carso n St connect s Texas to S Colleg e Ave. At 2 H i I-2 105 S Colleg e Av e and Carso n are the Hilkres t Apartment s ic 1951 i hv Norto n s. Mavheld. whic h are especial- ly prized by A&M architec- ture stal l and students Downstream ai I SOT S I ollcg c is the ex Norto n & Maylield architectur e studi o (1949). Williamso n St leads into Lakeview Additio n alongside a municipa l gol l course that was, in th e 1940s and 5t)s the Bryan C ountr v C:ittb At 23 13 Truma n St Is the extensively altered William W. Caudil l Hous e (1946, Caudil l & Rowleli), the hrst wor k ol liryan archi- tecture to be published in a national architectural jour- nal On the sout h side ol the goll course, at I t o l C.rcen St and W Vill a Mari a Road, is th e handsomel y main- tained Edwi n R. Olex a House I 1956) designed bv architec t and CRS employee E. R Olex a and subsequently owne d bv architect, A&M instructor and CRS partner Charles E Lawrenc e Gree n St , leads sout h to the parallel I hlingc r and Lyn n drive s in the Munnerlyii Villag e subdivision . At the n west end is one ol the most sinkin g neighborhood s in Bryan, a collectio n of stationary mobil e homes used as affordable housing Th e trailers are laced with corrugate d siding , whic h gives the m a curi - ously vanguar d look, Th e landscape improvement s are in some cases, quit e imaginative. Villa Mari a Road connect s Bryan's sout h and nort h sides, arcing throug h what stil l remains in places Aliimiri'iyii VMuft II » V A N I 7 I muiim/kiHi Ho\t\t undeveloped territor y on di e soulhcasi side ol town Thi s is th e post-highwa y suburban strip ; it makes S Texas and S Colleg e seem spatially mii - matt hy comparison ()l l I Vill a Mari a at Hin t I'arkwav Fen ace is Sul kos s Elementary Selioo l (1961 > by C. R Watso n Associates of Bryan, which is ver y CRS-lik e In character At K403 I'aikwav Terrace is th e starkl y modern f> Brooks Coler, Jr., Hous e i I'Ki l i by A&M architectur e professor Fhco R Hollema n Near th e intersec- tion ol Vill a Maria and I 2'itl i are tw o maio i MI|V urban institutiona l complexes ol the 1960S: St. Joseph's Hospita l and Healt h Cente r i 1971) by Matthews A Associates at 2H0 I Franciscan Driv e and the pyramid-roofe d pavilions ol Crcstvle w Home fo r Senio r Citizen s I 1964 I at 2502 W Villa Maria by I: Fai l Merrell , Jr., wit h Thoma s I! I bompson ol San Antoni o tiast 29t h Street leads to Esther lioulevard , whic h Intersects Waysid e Driv e in Cavut s Woodlan d Heights Additio n Woodlan d Heights was planned in 1915 by landscape architect N M Me( .mnis lo r th e W. I!. C avn i (stat e alon g the new 1 lighwa y 6 (no w S Texas) Hist as constructio n was near- inn completion . It was th e lust ol the highway-relate d subdivisions and Bryan's lus t garden subdivisio n At 21 I I Wavside Ur is the beautiful - ly detailed, limestone laced Earl C. Cunningha m Hous e Hiy.w lUuUnu.m.l I,'. I |«)5')i by Merrel l f. Vrooma n ,in especially notable wor k ol At.M architectur e professor Richard I: Vrooma n At 2(>IM -2MI9 S Texas, coinc i oi lawience , is the triml y detaile d Mauro Buildin g a stri p ollic e builiiin;: wit h a co n Unuous clerestory buil t bv the lather ol 1 exas Land Commissione r Carr y M.iin o < T'Si, | leni v D . Mayficld , jr.). At 280 0 S. Texas an d Oak . the Four-story, reinforced concrete ex-Bryan Building & Loa n Associatio n Buildin g i I9(>7), designed hv t hartic i ( Newto n lor the ollic e ol Matthew s & Associates stands out as one ol the most architec - turally distinctive building s on Texas Ave Nes t dooi at 2900 S. Texas and Dcllwoo d is the ex- Clayton's Restauran t 11957) by E. Earl Merrell . lr.. of the Martin , Lemmon . Merrel l it Vrooma n partnership, a spirite d example ol designed road side architecture , wit h its wid e roof overhangs and angled windo w bays Unfortunately , its owner . I list Federal Bank added a gratuitous mansard I if It v ,t N WthiUw roof in 1998 Fanners A M Marti n and lames H l.emmon, lr . o l th e same firm were responsible lor ibe BW Buildin g across the street at 2909-2')I') S. Texas Avenu e ic I95<,i which also Features a continuous clerestory. AlfJu.i/ Am I 'dim Al S. Texas an d Mar y Lake Lane, a pair ot moder n clinic s conlrom each othe r Th e ex-Medica l Art s Clin k at 3501 S. Texas <1951. Caudill , Rowlell , Scott & Associatesi is laced wit h CRS's distinctive har d red brick and In bv a continuou s clerestor y ban d tucked beneath th e low-pitche d roo l overhangs The BX Dr , W. H. Ritche y Clini c (c 1953, William I.. Nash wit h Harr y S Ransom) at 1500 S I evas is more contained wit h Us Hal roo l framed loggia and walls ol glass I )nwi i Mar y Lake Lane, on bot h sides ol the street between S Texas and Holick , are several duplex houses in varying states ol repau I hese spill around the corner to 1-119-17 I lolic k Lane Built i n 1951 by ( ollege Siauo n builder , developer, an d .n> hnet i III,IHI|III Willia m D fitch , this was the architects' ghett o in the 1950s CRS partners Wallie Sco n an d Willia m M I'cii a lived here, as did A&M design faculty members I dwar d I Romiemec. Frank lawyer , Ed Olvxa , Tin y Lawrence and \inw Yarbrougb Afc M landscape architecture piolesso i Kohei l 1 Whil e designed a garden and swimmin g poo l area > no longe i extant i shared bv the housin g units Th e integra - tion ol house and carport beneath a low-pitched , open gable roo l represents the most pervasive modern bouse typ e in Bryan an d Colleg e Station o l the 1950s. OtlS l olleg e Ave al 100 W lirooks.d e Dr is the ex-W R. Ded e Matthew s architectur e studi o i 19d I i wit h Us laminate d woo d beam roo l deck Alter CRS moved lo I loosto n in I95N. Matlhews's ollice became the talent poo l ol Bryan an d College Station , especially whe n A&M Faculty members Charle s E Estes, loh n ()nl y (.rce i Hal Moselev , lr , Chartic r C. Newton , and W ( ceil Steward , lr weie associated wit h the lir m in the 1960s, A t E lirooksid e and S Colleg e one enters Nort h Oakwood Additio n laid out in f9l n by th e College Station developer I I . 1: Burgess and designed bv I icdenc k W I lensel tli f lus t proles Mir oi landscape architectur e .it As M Bryan arc In- u , * I Ico n I > Mavfic-l d Ii htuh his lami h s house at 100 E Brookside i I'tto . altered}, thi s was the childhoo d hom e oi his son, Housto n architect H Davi s Mayfiel d III . At 301 E. Hrookside Dr is an early wor k ol Caudil l Rowlet l Scott & Associates, the Professor R. L, Puerlfo y House il''50 i Alon g K Hrookside stands ol dense i>ost oak woodlan d landscape alternate wit h the tolling suburban lawns ot Ninth < l.ikwiiii d The combinatio n ol lime- stone, woo d and brick Iden- tities the contemporar y style Brazos A. Varisc o Hous e at 415 E. Brooksid e Ic 1952) .is th e wor k ol Norto n & Mavlield Urvan's lirs i modern house is the now slightly altered Margare t Pearce Hous e I I'M I i ai 101 Crescent Or by Houslon architect s M.n ku & Kamrat h The most stun - ning mode m house in Nort h ()akwood is the Clifto n C. Carter Hous e .11 11 I Crescent Dr i l')5f>), designed by Willia m E Nash for ( alter , an I.U.I political operative , where the architecture accentuates th e slopin g site At son Crescent Driv e is the Dr . R. P. Marstelle r Hous e i 1946), the must handsome tratttiion.i l style house In Nort h Oakwood . At 510 Colleg e Vie w and Oak woo d is the Dr . Willia m C, Banks Hous e (c 1952), another wor k ol Norto n & Maylicl d Aflvilfclll Horn HT I ii'in t /'raru tlawyt t urUr HiiWif unassuming entrance (alongside a sto p shop- ping center), Beverley Estates presents a lineu p o l bi g biggies mi N Rosemary Dr . ol whic h the most notable is the Ford D. Albrilton , Jr., Hous e at 72o N Rosemary 119651 Thi s was designed by William I Nash based cm a preliminar y design by Mrs . Albrittou's brother , San Augustine architect Railord W Striplin g It is a grand-scaled, Palladianizc d version ol the Creek Revival Ezekiel W Culle n House in San Augustine Several years alte r completion . Dallas architect loh n Asti n Perkins made maio r additions to the reai ol the house, includin g a domed classical bathhouse pavilio n Aroun d the loop at 7-lK S Rosemary is th e Professor Phili p C Murdoc h Hous e i I''50), a large modern house b\ I atidill Rowlett, Scott &• Associates thai has sulk-red unsympathetic alteralinn s ( >n th e east side nl S 1 cxas Ave Inwoo d I )i leads to the intersectio n ol Tangle-wood I k and the Andre w 1. Og g Housed 1954) at 801 laugh-wood by Willia m I Nash wit h hlarry S Ransom, ttlm h displays .1 sei lii.n.il U activated probl e Across S. Texas Ave. fro m North Oakwoo d is Itryan's posh- est intow n neighborhood . Beverley Estates designed in In i 8 by landscape aichitect Entz Hensel lo r developers Willia m M Sparks aiu l Douglas W Howell . As ii to compensate lo r the Ii k Y A H I 9 TEXAS A &M U N I V E R S I T Y The Agricultura l and Mechanical College ol Texas, the oldest state-supported institu - tion of higher education in Texas, opened on this site in 1 N7(->, In 1H7I , a group of Bryail citizens offered the State of Texas 2,4 L6 acres of land , 4'/j miles south of the center of tow n and adjoinin g the Housto n & Texas Centra l Railwa y line, as an inducement to locate its land-gran t college in Brazos County . This offer determine d the long-term futur e of Bryan an d its eventual siblin g College Station. Architecture began to be taught at A &M in I 90s under the directio n of Frederick 1.. Cieseeke, an engineerin g graduate of the college. Thi s was the first academic program of architectural instructio n in Texas, landscape architecture began to be taugh t as a disci- pline in 1923 under Trcdcriek W. I tense!, also an A &M alumnus , fro m the 1 Wills throug h the 1930s, the senior architectur e facult y were responsibl e fo r designing new campus buildings. Because of his long tenure , Ciesecke's name appears wit h great frequency on university cornerstones. Durin g the 1940s and 1950s, the College Architec t (an appoint - ment that tended to circulat e amon g Bryan architects, all A &M alumni ) designed most new buildings. As late as the mid-1 960s, Dedc Matthew s ol Bryan tilled this role in a tie fttCtO capacity. In 1931 , followin g protracte d negotiations wit h the University of Texas, Texas A &M go t access to the state's oil-ric h Permanent Universit y I und endowment , whic h financed a wave of ambitiou s new constructio n at both A &M and UT . Whil e LIT hired Paul Philippe Cret of Philadelphia to reshape its Austi n campus, A &M turned once again to Professor (iiesecke. (iiesecke's design staff, led by the brillian t draftsma n an d ornamentalis t S. C. P. Vosper, a professor of architectur e fro m 1929 unti l 1933 , produced the building s that symboliz e A&M. These adhered to the conservative typologies that had dominated the campus since the beginnin g of the 20t h century. But they are enlivened by sparkling, inventive detai l in tile, terra cotta , cast stone, an d metals. I n 1963 , Texas Agricultura l & Mechanical College became Texas A &M University and women were admitted for the first time as regular students. Between the mid I 9d0s and the mid 1970s, the university's enrollment tripled . A buildin g boo m durin g the administrations o f presidents ). Earl Rudder an d Jack William s met this increase in students and new acade- mic programs. Since 1970, new buildings have been much bigger than pre-1970 buildings and ten d to consist of aggressive shapes masked by bric k or precast Concrete cladding . When not constraine d by the spatial orde r of the campus core , they tend to lose any sense of connection to a larger spatial whole . As a result, the outlyin g sectors of the central cam- pus, especially the West Campus , lack a distinctive sense of architecturall y defined place. 10 IT f * A s A * M U N I V E R S I T Y Beginning the fraying of the edges was the U.S. Department of Agricultur e Buildin g (1942, no w Duli e Bell Hall ) by Housto n architec t Alfre d C. Finn at the corner of University Dr . an d Wellbor n Road . It is one of the few campus buildings not in align - ment wit h the university's Academic Building . Finn had no A8c M connection . But this building was finance d wit h loan s fro m th e federa l Reconstructio n Financ e Corporation , presided five r by linn's client , Housto n entrepreneur Jesse II . Jones. Finn's involvemen t at Atfc M hinge d on thi s connection . Adjoinin g are tw o Finn - designed dormitories : Crocker and Mclnni s Hall s (1942). Visible fro m Wellbor n are the backs of Moses, Keathley, and Fowler Halls , low-rise , balcony accessed modern dormitories by Matthew s is; Associates (1964). Marking the historic West Gate entrance fro m Wellbor n Road (originall y the entrance from the H&T C track s an d the Colleg e Statio n stop) is the Albritto n Hell Towe r ll^.S-f] by Morris * Auhr y Architect s of Houston , a gif t of Mr . an d Mrs . For d D. Albritton, Jr., whic h straddles Ol d Mai n Drive. As earl y as 1911 Professor Gicsccke sought to reshape campus space more resolutely than it had been in the 19th century by enforcin g axes of movement and view , to whic h I'rofessor I lensel was to contribut e with his plantin g of live oak trees. Thu s the histori c Simpson Dril l Field, once disen- cumbered of the facult y housin g an d studen t dormitorie s buil t oi l an d aroun d it , became a monumenta l grass mall , establishing a grander sense of scale. O n the south sale ol the Dril l Field is the Memoria l Student Center (1950, Carlero n W. Adams , System Architect). Despite an obtrusiv e porte-cochere added in 197.?, the MSC stands out as a classic 4<)s-mod- e m version of Frank Floyd Wright's Prairi e School architecture , wit h its emphatic hori/.ontalit y an d ric h material s palette , includin g a base course of fosstlated Texas limestone. The l.os Angeles interior decorator Robert D. Ilarrell , wh o ha d jus t complete d the interior s of the Shamrock Hote l in I louston , was responsible for the center's original interiors. Adams , a veteran San Aniom o architect , had such archi - tects as Walli e Scott, Brook s Martin , an d Nikki e Hollema n on his staff whe n the Memorial Center was designed. Glomme d ont o the cast side ot the buildin g is the J. Farl Rudder Center (197.1) by Jarvis Putty Jarvis of Dallas, an arts , performance, con - tinuing education, and conference complex tha t includes a 12-story rower. Th e Ne w York decorator Willia m Pahlmann designed its interiors ; his excesses—particularly his Flag Room—prompte d campus protest. O n the nort h side of the Dril l Field is Henderson Hal l (1958), a dormi - tory by Carleto n W. Adams that is a reprise of the Memoria l Student Center. Next to it is one of the most modest and affecting building s on campus. Al l Faiths Chapel (|4s T ), by Richard E. Vrooma n wit h Ernest l.angford. Faced wit h fossilated limestone , the chapel is the campus's TEXAS A * At U n i v t tt s i i v l I MlFditht'haM \, ,i.li!l[f, HmUitut sr '•:.-,• ,1 only contribution to the modern architectural movement that was so important to College Station and Bryan in the 1950s. Vrooman's expansiv e de-centered interior, indoor-outdoor \ist.i-.. anti-momimentaliry , and tine detailing make the chapel a moving place. Unfor- tunately, the grounds, originally designed hy Robert l;. White, are not as well maintained as the building. Bookending the axis at the edge ot the central campus ar e the YMCA Building [1914) In architecture professor S.J . fountain and the Richard Coke Building (19511 hy Houston architects Herber t S. Voelcker &; Associates. They frame the domed Academic Building (1914) by l;. K. C.iesecke and Samuel l;„ Gideon. In 1912, Ciesecke left A&M to star t the architecture program at LIT, taking his star design critic, Sam Gideon, with him. I Ins detection was not held against Gicscckc, wh o returne d to AcvM as professo r of architectur e and College Architect in 1927. Until 1964, the architectur e department occupied the top Moor ot the Academic Building. A focus of ritual rever- ence is Ponipeo Coppini's standing bronze figure of Lawrence Sullivan Ross { L919). Sul Ross was president of A&M College and governor ot Texas, flanking the Academic Building to the south and north are the nearly identica l Civil Engineerin g Buildin g 11909 , now Nagl e Hall ) an d Electrical Engineering Building (l l M2, now Bolton Hall), both In Ciesecke. the Academic Building and the tw o engineerin g buildings are example s of the engineer's classicism tha t wa s Giesecke's forte. Their composition, scale, and brown brick facing are redolent of the coun- ty courthouse s and high schools that AcvM students would have known troiu their borne towns, a connection that makes the central campu s buildings archetypes of the landscape ot early 20th-century Texas. To the west of Nagle I lall is Hart Hall ( 19.10), with its chamfered corners, a dormitory by F. E. Ciesecke. According to Truest l.angford's invaluable document on the architectural history of the AScM campus, Here We'll BtiiLl the College (1963), all of the buildings pro- duced durin g Ciiesecke's secon d tenur e as Colleg e Architect wer e designed by S. C. P. Vosper. I lart I Jail's chamfered corners play off the angled front of the Extensio n Administration Building | 1 924 , now Military Sciences) by E. B. LaRoche, a professor of architecture wh o went on to become a partne r of Herbert M, Creene and Ceorge L. Dahl of Dallas, architects for UT durin g the 1920s and 1930s. J.aRoche's building in tur n frame s th e classica l portic o of rhe Researc h Administration Building (19|8 , now Butler Hall), one of the few cam- pus buildings between the 1900s and 1950s produced by an outsid e architect, in this case, William Ward Watkin of I louston and Ins partner Ceorge Endrcss ot Austin. Watkin, professor of architecture at the Rice Institute, also designed the original campus buildings of Texas Technological College in Lubbock in the 1920s. Abutting the Military Sciences Building is the Physics Building 11921, now Psychology). It was designed 12 I T f X A i ,\1 U N I V E R S I T Y In .irdiirmurf uurri m W. Vorr Dunne, l w remembered »a Da/Ju a/dtite^ tvJio spe- cialtzed in the design of movie theaters ,itms s lexa s m the 1920s and 19.10s, it mirrors the Mechanical Engineering Building ( 1920, now Fermier Hall) to the north of the Academic building, by Holland Adclspergcr, a professor of architecture. A modern note is sounded by the concrete trained Biological Sciences Building (I 9fth, now biological Sciences West) by Matthews & Associates. The Matthew s office adopte d modern structural expression hut fit the building to its contex t by respecting existing heights, alignments, and typologies. The Gushing Library (1930, F. E. Giesecke) was designed and built before the Permanent University Fund monies became available. It has the scale and dignity, if not the ornamental exuberance, of Giesecke and Vosper's subsequent campus buildings. The quadrangle trained by the Gushing Library and the Academic building is the heart of the old campus . The col- oration and scale of the surrounding architecture, and especially the presence of the live oak trees planted by Frit/. Hensel, make this colle- giate space feel very much like those on the UT campus in Austin. This perception works best if one stands with one's back to the multistory Harrington Kducation Center I |9~4) by Harriett (. ockc ex Associates ot San Antonio , a behemot h tha t parodies the architectur e of O'Nei l Ford. The mercilessness ol post-1970 architecture at AcvM begins to be inescapabl) apparen t here. The dishin g Library is now the tail of a vast library complex; the hotly is Jarvis Putty Jarvis's Sterling C. F.vans Library ()9e,K|, the maw is the aggressive and ungainly Sterling C. Evans Library Addition (1980) by Preston M. Cieren ex Associates of Fort Worth , which consumed a landscaped plaz a formerly located between th e librar y and the classical Agriculture Building (192.1, F. R. LaRoche). South ot the Kvans librar y is anothe r of Matthews & Associates ' deferential modern buildings, the interestingly textured Plant Sciences Building (1962 , no w C. F, Peterson building). Followin g th e side street tha t Peterson faces leads, on axis , to the Corps of Cadets Dormitory Group (I9>9, Alfred C. linn), a symmetrically organized complex of banded brick buildings forming a series of linked quadrangles built with RFC funding. South ol the Agriculture Building is the ex-Animal Husbandr y Pavilion (1917 , Rollaiul Adelsperger), no w a student services center. North of the library is anothe r classically detailed Fndress & Watkin academic building, Francis Hall (1918). To the west is a cross-axia l mall ont o whic h Giesecke an d Vosper's immense Chemistry Building (1929) faces. Colorful tile spandrel panels beneath its second- and third-floor windows exhibit chemical symbols. Fuming east along the street that passes the Chemistry building, one i s especially awar e of the line of cypress trees planted to complement llensel's live oaks . Across the street is another of the extraordinar y buildings tha t Gieseck e an d Vospe r produced , th e Petroleu m Engineering and Geology Building 119 *2, now I lalbouty Geosciences). 'lilMt S u t l ( . ( I J I C J V (Triil./iP'.J TEXAS At LI i* J v E « S i T y\ 13 ['tlmttifry it \\u\li\w.S • • <*?• v. Siditir* I /.ill llllllh? IllJlfihlr ' 111 Kylr FifJ.1 Its polychrom e til e spandre l panel s ar c especiall y captivating , as ar e it s cris p cast ston e sculptura l details , anothe r Vospe r specialty , I l.ilhont y has los t its marvelous Ar t Dec o tower , whic h wa s twic e as tal l as th e buildin g an d meta - morphosed fro m a squar e in pla n to an octago n at it s summi t wit h inset mittjiirnas. A multistor y anne x to th e Chemistr y Buildin g is th e Ne w Chemistry Buildin g (1984 ) by Pierc e Goodwi n Alexande r ot Houston . At the east en d of th e stree t is th e Veterinar y Hospita l Buildin g | l l '!4, no w Civil Engineering ] by Gicscck e an d Vosper . Sinc e th e hospita l wa s onl \ tw o stories hig h rathe r tha n three , Vospe r compensate d by layin g on th e cast stone ornament . Turning back , the n headin g south , on e re-engage s th e mai n axi s an d a n entir e ne w quadrangl e shape d as par t of th e east campu s expansio n o f th e earl y I'J.lUs, Pacin g eac h othe r acros s th e wid e gree n law n ar e Giesecke an d Vosper's Agricultura l Engineerin g Buildin g 111> >2, no w Senates Hall ) an d th e Anima l Industrie s Buildin g (l L M2). Scoate s Hal l stands ou t by virtu e of it s giant-scale d entranc e portal , suffuse d wit h ornament in a variet y of media . The tower-frame d Anima l Industrie s building als o possesse s a bol d entranc e pavilion , wher e Vosper's iconography take s on a pronounce d I'exan flavor : cattl e brand s appea r as cast meta l ornamen t aroun d th e fron t door . Terminatin g th e avi s is the Joh n K. William s Administratio n Buildin g (19.12 , K. E. dieseck e with S. C. P. Vospe r an d Raifor d W. Stripling), a palace-lik e classica l block face d wit h cas t stone . It s visua l impac t fro m th e east is eve n more dramatic . The site wa s grade d so tha t th e buildin g appear s to rise o n a promontor y on axi s wit h Ne w Mai n Drive , whic h frit z I lense l framed wit h liv e oaks . Stair s descen d fro m th e Administratio n buildin g t o a symmetrica l parterr e at th e level of Ne w Mai n Drive . Th e interio r o f th e buildin g is as exuberantl y colore d an d ornamente d as a 1920 s movie palace . Flanking th e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n b u i l d i n g ar e th e 12-stor y Elle r Oceanograph y an d Meteorology Buildin g (197.1 , Presto n M. Ciere n tv Associates ) an d th e Langfor d Architecture Center , hom e of th e Colleg e of Environmenta l Desig n (1977 , 1964 , Harwoo d K . Smit h tv Partners). Th e mos t cleve r wor k of mode m desig n in th e east quadrangl e is th e undulating berm s at it s wes t en d ()97h , Myric k Newma n Dahlberg , landscap e architects), behind th e Agricultura l building . These emphasiz e th e fla t swee p of th e quadrangl e law n and ingeniousl y scree n a parkin g lo t tha t has hel d on at th e cente r ol th e campus . Between existin g building s is th e Library , Computing , an d Stud y Complex, a hug e bu t consideratel y scaled anne x to th e Ivan s I ibrar y b y Austi n architect s draeber , Simmon s tv Cowa n (1998). Kyl e Field , i t I T t x A s * M U N I V E R S I T Y the university's footbal l stadium , is an extraordinar y landmark . It incorporates , on its low - esi tier , th e origina l stadiu m buil t betwee n \^1~ an d 192 9 to th e design s of architect s Henry N. Jun e an d I'.rnest l.angfor d an d enginee r (.. L:, Sandstedr . Th e highris c uppe r decks, serve d by projectin g curve d ramp s lLoekwood , Andrew s & Newnam , I9.X0), rais e the profil e of Kyle Held an d giv e it its commandin g presenc e in th e landscape . Across Wellbor n Roa d an d th e H&T C track s from th e centra l campu s is AtfcM's Wes t Campus, whic h has take n shap e since th e 1970s . It is no t th e architectura l desig n of build - ings tha t make s th e Wes t Campu s problcmmati c bu t th e lac k of a campu s plan . Buildings appea r to be sited at random , as thoug h this wer e an architectura l parkin g lot . Th e majo r buildings on th e Wes t Campu s include : th e Recreationa l Sport s (ente r an d Naiatoruin i (1995 ) by Marmo n Mo k of San Antonio , th e Kleber g Cente r by ID/Internationa l of Houston , th e Hee p Cente r for Soil an d Cro p Sciences an d Entomolog y 11L>~7) by Omnipla n of Dallas , th e Biochemistry/Hiophysic s Buildin g (I9K9 ) by Harper , Kemp , Clutt s & Parke r of Dallas , th e Horticulture/Fores t Servic e Cente r Buildin g (I9N4 ) by Fisher Sc Spillma n of Dallas, th e Wes t Campo s Librar y |19 l M ) by Ra y Bailey Architect s of Houston , th e E. L. Wehner Busines s Administratio n Buildin g (I9SM) by Harper . Kemp , Chirr* ex Parker , th e Reynolds Medica l Buildin g i T>Si] In Page Southerlan d Page of Austin , an d th e Medica l Science librar y (19851 by Chumncy , Jone s Sc Kell of San Antonio . Acros s Stot/e r Parkway . a continuatio n of Universit y Drive , is th e Veterinar y Medicin e Smal l Anima l Clini c (I9N11 , also by Chumncy , Jone s &: Kell. The architectura l clima x of th e Wes t Campu s is th e Georg e Bus h Presidential Librar y an d Museu m [ I 1 >L O , designe d by CRS S of Houston an d complete d by llellmufli , Obat a c\ Kassabau m afte r it absorbed CRSS . Isolate d in a landscap e park , th e museu m an d librar y seem to forecas t th e innocuou s suburba n futur e towar d whic h I nllege Statio n is striving . (IttWjl /inJi Pmidcntidl Li/'titryl illlif Atusruin ' 'iiJm K U'rl/ii?iii* AdlttilM'SfMBM liui'.l.iT./ • irht haw- tflm Nan Aliiin Dim IIWIJIIUI ftBiit tht Univmity AAminhlmtUm BiiiUma T r x ,i S A t M U N l v E » - i i v 15 -t 1 1 1 H H 1 1 H • I t 1—H I 1 1 t -H 1 1 1 1 H -t 1 1 1- c: C) L L E G E STATION College Station was the name given to the H&TC train stop opposite the campus of Texas A&M College. Until the 1920s, faculty lived on the campus in an array of houses between the college station and the main building. The campus was in the open countryside and there was little surrounding settlement. In the early 1920s a group of faculty members developed a residential subdivision, College Park, south of the campus. It was joined by a second Southside subdivision in the early 1930s, a subdivision at East Gate and the new Highway 6 in the late 1930s, and institu- tional and commercial development at North Gate along N, College Main St. In 1938, College Station was incorporated as a city, inhabited almost entirely by ASM faculty members and staff. From 1942 until 1966, Ernest Langford, professor of architecture at A&M , head of the architecture department from 1929 until 1956, and general eminence grise, was mayor of College Station. North Gate is the commercial and institutional area on University Drive opposite the A&M campus. In the 1920s, i t was where different religious organizations began t o build chapels ministering to students, some quite substantial in size. The earliest of these chapels no longer exists: the Spanish style St. Mary's Catholic Chapel 119261, designed by the El Paso architects Trost & Trost at 607 University and N. Nagle Immediately behind the site of the Trost chapel ties St. Mary's Student Center (1354) at 103 N. Nagle St. and N . Church Ave. Designed by William E Nash with Harry S Ransom, this unassuming modern building is house-like in scale. Closed on its street sides, it opens to a rear garden orig- inally planned by Robert F White Its days may be numbered. [6 I ( ii I I I i. E S r A T i o n I I I I I I I I I I - I — I — I — I — I — ( — t - Our Savior's Lutheran Church The most architecturally sensational house of wor- ship in North Gate is Our Savior's Lutheran Church (19561 at 309 Tauber St. and Cross by A&M architecture instructor and CflS partner-to-be Frank D. Lawyer, with Ernest Langford Bravura structural and glazing details complement the sweep of its ascending roof. Note the CflS-like use of hard red paving brick Much more subdued in treatment is the University Lutheran Chapel (19651 at 315 N College Main St and Cross by A&M instructor Rocky Thorpe Tucked inconspicuously into the mixed landscape of North Gate is the post oak woodland garden at 314 Spruce and N College Mam, cultivated by Robert F. White (1364). Ernest Langford designed the sedate, classically detailed A&M Church of Christ (19331 at 301 N College Mam St with Milton Foy Martin of Houston At 203 N College Main and N. Church is the Baptist Student Center 11950} by Norton & Mayfield, one of several Baptist student centers designed across Texas at that time by Henry 0 Mayfield. Unfortunately, the most architecturally distinctive commercial building on University, the stream- lined ex-Campus Theater |c 1941) at 217 University and N. Boyett, has hcnndi faced William M. Sparks's Aggieland Pharmacy Building |c 1938) at 401-405 University and N. College Main has been a focus of the City of College Station's program in the late 1990s to reha- bilitate North Gate. The block of College Mam just off University was the first part of North Gate to be intensively commercialized San Antonio architect Henry Steinbamer was responsible for the dignified neo-Gothn: A&M Methodist Church 11946,19511 at 417 University Dr. and Tauber. The northernmost point in North Gate is Hensel Park off S. College. This 30 acre park, which belongs to Texas A&M. com- memorates pioneer landscape architecture professor Fritz A&M Church olChrisI Agginliind Pharmacy Building Hensel with a dense preserve of post oak woodland marking the boundary between College Station and Bryan East Gate lies on the side of the A&M campus bordering Texas Ave This had been the back door to the college until the Texas Ave. highway opened in 1936 Walton Drive, a continua- tion of the imposing New Main Drive into the campus, leads to the subdivision of College Hills Estates, developed by John C Culpepper beginning in 1938 Although its houses are not remarkable. College Hills features the generous Thomas Park esplanade between Puryear Drive and James Parkway Reflecting his market base, Culpepper named many of the streets ol College Hills lot senior members of the A&M facul- ty, among them the dean of engineering and future college president Frank C Bolton, father of Houston architect Preston M Bolton. Backing up to College Hills Estates is the College Station City Hall, Police, and Fire Building (1970, C R Watson Associates, 19B4. Russell Stogsdill)at 1101 Texas Ave. and Francis St. Just south of the Texas-George Bush Drive intersection. Park Place South intersects Texas, Hidden on Park Place, behind the commercial strip along Texas, is one of College Station's small African American enclaves, which originated as a rural subdi- vision of the Kapchinski family farm Off Anderson St. at Wolf Bun Lane is the Wolfpen Village subdivision begun by Robert D Martell in 197t It is the townhouse enclave of College Station Row houses, many designed by College Station archi- tects J W. Wood Associates, are faced with Mexican brick, the material of choice in College Station since the 1970s. At George Bush O r and Holick, the one building that survives from A&M Consolidated Senior High School by Caudill, Rowlett. Scott & Associates is visible the 600-seat Auditorium (1954), ns fly- ing saucer-like roof sup- ported on exposed lami- nated timber arches. Also gone are all components of the original Consolidated School (1940) by Clarence J . Finney and Ernest Langford at George Bush and Timber. Like the High School, the Consolidated School was published in the national architectur- al press; it was one of the earliest schools in Texas planned according to modernist principles. Auililoriuni Cotlf G! S T A T ( (i Ml 17 Giesecke House Timber Lane leads through another Gill Fitch-built sub- division. The east side of the 300 and 400 blocks are lined wit h Fitch's variations •n the favored Bryan- College Station '50s mod- ern house type Park Place S. leads to (he Southside subdivision of Oakwoo d Additio n (19321, developed by H E. Burgess. Clearly predating the 1930s is the Giesecke House 11891) a l 1102 Park Place S and Lee. the second oldest building in College Station and once home to architect F. E. Giesecke. After the A&M adminis- tration decided to remove all bouses from the campus in 1939. many of the wooden cottages that had fined the perimeter of Simpson Drill Field and the zone where the Memorial Student Center wa s built were moved into Oakwood Addition and the neighboring College Park (Professor and Mrs. Paul Van Riper have been able to identify 41 of these houses in College Station, Bryan, and Brazos County) This house, which original- ly stood on the site ol the Memorial Sludent Center, has been rehabilitated by architect Gerald Maffe i Us grounds have been brilliantly landscaped by artist Joan Maffe i Newton Adjoining is Canterbury House (19751 b y David G Woodcock wit h M 0 Lawrence St Thomas Chapel wa s sub- sequently joined on the Southside by the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation 11958] a l 800 George Bush Dr and E. Dexter Drive, designed by Houston architects Lenard Gabert & W Jackson Wisdom The oldest neighborhood in College Station is College Park developed in 1923 by Floyd B Clark, professor of economics at A&M. and his associates in the Southside Development Company: Charles W Burchard, professor of chemistry, Daniel Scoates, professor of agricultural engineering, and M. M Daugherty The centerpiece of College Park is the picturesque Brison Park, bounded by East and West Dexter Drives and named for F. R. Brison, professor of horticulture. This was planned by landscape architect Fritz Hensel, WII D also designed the subdivision Among the house sites that slope toward the park are those of Professor Clark at 305 E. Dexter (19241, Professor Brison at 600 W. Dexter, and the first -i—i —i —i —i —i —i —i —i —i -i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i t Warner House At 300 Lee Ave. formerly stood the first work of modern architecture in College Station, the small Clarence J. Finney House (1936), which A&M architecture profes- sor Jack Finney designed and built for himself. Influenced by the Usonian houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, Finney planned his flat-roofed wood house for maximum pene- tration by the prevailing southeast breeze. Similar considerations are visible in the C. E. Warne r House at 211 Lee |c. 19361. wit h its south-side screened porch. Developer Hershel E. Burgess lived at 112 Lee in a restrained neo-Georgian house designed by Ernest Langford (1935) At 202 Pershing and Suffolk is the most strik- ing house in Oakwood. the Monterey style J. R. Couch House 11940) Professor Langford was also architect for the suburban- rustic St . Thomas Chapel (1938). the Episcopal student chapel, at 906 George Bush Dr. between Pershing and Newton, whic h is now attached to the larger St. Thomas Episcopal Church 11995) by Austin architect Chartier C Couch House Snlicmher Hmist B TSSMf s <*-"v/^l Ernest Langford House g^£ 119291 at 602 W . Dexter. _imHii^BiiiKia_-i At 606 Jersey Drive, on the north side of the park, is lln ' I:IIIII|I,II:[ minium Richard E. Vrooman House (1955) by architec- ture professor Dik Vrooman There are two other small modern houses of note in College Park the Vick E. Schember House (c 1953) at 511 Ayrshire St and Bell by Willia m E Nash wit h Harry S. Ransom .mil the L. Brooks Marti n House (1950) al 504 Park Place S. and Walsh by L Brooks Martin Note that on the west side of Brison Park, the streets are named for different breeds of cat- tle. College Park launched Professor Clark on a long career as one o( College Station's fore- most residential real estate developers Unilmian-Univarsalist Fellowship At 30 5 Wellbor n Ril IS the ex A&M Christian Church (now the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, c 1949) by A&M architecture professor Ben H Evans, whic h is sited in a shady grove Its angled louvered wings (19811 are by College 1 8 I C (1 t L t I. £ S T A T i o n Station architect Rodney C Hill Around the comer, above father's Bookstore in (he Southside Community Center at 340 George Bush Dr and Montclair |c 1938), i s the second- floor olfice space where Bill Caudill and John M. Rowletl set up what would become Caudill Rowletl Scott in 1947. Following E Dexter south to Holleman Drive, then east to Winding Road, brings one tD The Knoll This was developed by F B Clark in 1947. The Knoll was conceived as the modern architecture enclave of College Station Although it never quite attained the design stature envisioned for it. The Knoll is a showcase of College Station modernism o l the 1950s. Its single, loop street descends at 1206 Orr Dr where the architectural highlight of the neighborhood, the second William W. Caudill House (1953, Caudill, Rowletl. Scott & Associates), is located. Turned on its site to open to the downward stope, the brick and glass Caudill House and its companion rear studio building commu- nicate the enthusiasm for going modern that was so appealing Caudill House House M iS/jis.n 1211(1 Langford; it has been altered The David D. Yarbrough House [c I960) at 1Z13 Winding Road was designed by A&M architecture instructor and former CRS employee Yarbrough with paneled walls of black glazed brick. At 1211 Winding Road is the Dean W. W. Armistead Housed: 1956). L Brooks Martin designed the altered, split-level Professor Arthur G. Edmonds House (19491 at 1205 Winding Road. Prolessor Clark named several of the streets on The Knoll and its exten- sion. The South Knoll, lor Weick House Yarbrough House An i stei1.1 House I I I I I I I I I I I I -t—I 1—I—I --I—I—r—I—I—I—I—I—I--(—I 1—I 1—I - l.iwyiM House in the 1950s The Frank D. Lawyer House (1954) at 1214 Orr by architect Lawyer is closed on its long street side by a wall of cement panels and high-set clerestory win- dows. Note how stands of post oak woodland landscaping separate the house sites on The Knoll. Around the corner ai 1104 Langford St.. as the loop road begins to rise, is a corrugated cement pan- eled house designed by Ben H. Evans for Ins family (c. 1957). The Evans House has suffered Irom extensive additions, but the spatial counterpoint between the house and its open carport is still apparent. Theo R, Holleman designed his family's house (1961) a t 1110 Langford. At 1115 Langford and Winding Road is the Fred Weick House (1949) by Caudill, Rowlett, ScDtt & Associates. Faced with limestone, it is an expansive version of the College Station modern house type. The second Ernest Langford Evans House architects who built their houses on The Knoll Langford, Caudill, and Franklin Lawyer Langford St leads past the Longley House at 1215(c 1970), an unexpected bit of old Santa Fe At 1220 Boswell St. is E Earl Merrill's South Knoll Elementary School (1967), a testament to his apprenticeship with CRS. Southside developed in spatial layers: the interwar layer between George Bush and Holleman Dr. was followed by the postwar layer between Holleman and Southwest Parkway. The 1960s and '70s layer is between Southwest Parkway and West Loop 2B18. Along 2818, churches stand out as the most visible works of architecture in the exploded landscape of sprawl, especially Peace Lutheran Church 11981) by Rodney C. Hill at 2201 Rio Grande Blvd. and West Loop 2818 and the flamboyantly post- modern Friends United Church of Christ (1981) byClovis Heimsath Associates of Austin ai 1300 West Loop 2918 Si. Francis Episcopal Church New Col lege Station lies south o l Deacon Drive Along Rock Prairie Road, St. Francis Episcopal Church at 1101 (1987. Holster & Associates) and tin; College Station Medical C O t t t CI S T A T 1 O W I " Center Hospital (1987, Page Soulherland Pagel at 1604 Rock Prairie are the architectural stand outs On the east side o t the East Bypass. Rock Prairie leads to Stonebmok Dr and to Wilshire Court At 1307 Wilshire Court is the Julius M. Gribou House (1997) by ASM architecture department head Julius Gribou The northbound Irontage road leads to Sebesta, Foxfire, Frost, and eventually to 2509 Fitzgerald Circle, where the dramatic, triangular Peter J. Zweig House 11977), designed as an environmentally respon- sive house by Houston architect Zweig while teaching at A&M, is located At 2541 East Bypass is S t Thomas Aquinas Zweig House H 1 1 1 1 1 1- I I I I I I I I I I I I Tin House Foley's Catholic Church I191)9). with its spatially remark- able interior, by College Station architects Holster & Associates with A&M architecture professor David C. Ekroth An homage to Gerry Maffei's Tin House is the Galvalume-surfaced, shed-like Tin House at 2504 Rainlree Dr. (19971. designed and buill by A&M architecture stu- dents Charley Hatfield and Matthew De Wolf Since opening in the late 1970s, the Highway 6 Bypass has stimulated sprawling suburban development. College Station's shopping mall, Post Oak Mall, was built at the Harvey Road intersection (1982); its primary architectural component is Foley's by Houston architects Lloyd Jones Brewer & Associates. 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