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The Bryan townsite was surveyed by Theodore Kosse, engineer for the Houston & Texas
planter,
construcuon of the
The outbreak
Brazos County. otreach Bryan until
through the t0wnsite in
accordingly.
merit,so that, in plan, the street grid appears to be inscribed in a
· where it changes
inscribed in a diamond was a
of
ifts in
Rice, and Ennis.
Heame, Calvert, Bremond, Kosse,
on
Exit the Highway 6 Bypass at Briarcrest Drive,
head
tO
leads
for
Return on
arch
destroyed by
Academy
been i
tary at the ]
COl
the only buitdingin
At
Osborn
of houses built
generations of
ly, who
knowr
tior
the
(1952)
of Bryan
vacant
most
Henry
Memorial Hall
professor
one of
the
describes this neigh-
)idn't Shop at
Bryan
;in
refers
Hill but
Martin
one
s Freedmen
where
Martin
has
1870.
Kosse's
African-
~' the
t at 504
1972) at 808 N
Woodcock; the steeple
) at W. Martin
striking
its conclusion,
School
Kemp
one finds that the "rural"
rural"
At 900 N. l
Leonard House (c. 1875
with a
and
believes this
in
have been
of
The Lawrence Shedof the
Bryan Compress and
Warehouse Co. complex in
the 1000 block of N. Bryan
Avenue (c. 1930s) isone of
the most intact reminders of
B ' '
ryan s ~dentification with
cotton and the railroad. The
6-bay, metal surfaced shed
with it
is striking in its s
repetition.
duplex cottages, a
working
ed by the cotton sheds and
the railroad tracks.
the sheds
pair of 1950s ~
tures, the
Station [3ril
N. Bryan Avenue and,
Martin
Next door to ~
mark, the Bryan
N. Main
sidewalk
down Main Avenue.
the street
20th and 22nd were once part of the G. S, Parker
Main and
other Brazos
ng the
ecl'or
visible in
panels
aspira~
25th (now'
In the
fore-
that this
of a
at 120 N.
family bank; William J~ Bry nts are
still connected with it. At
26th.
housed Bryan'
Like the
despite
The ~
of the Queen
Salle
27th
businessman
Mai
the
at 20C
father. Both
are due to
ence (
( 1998. Michael
The
E. 26th
1:own
that
bisected
century
this ~
lack ~
26t
leavin
Group
David
park
park
Ave,
4 BRYAN
through the 1930s. The Masonic building was
architects Handers &
>f early 20th-
Iames E.
it was his son Charles
streamlined
at211
exhibits an
Hall in its
of the
line
to the
the backs
~ at Woolwortb's
spatial
of caf4s and shops, rather
s St.
217W.
Oldest church build-
neo-Gothic tower is
College Station archi-
treet at 216
Oscar
the
complement, along
6th Street and adja-
Side has having
Bryan's dire neighborhoods
the
ment of the I&GN
Parker House of c.
Congress and W. 27th.a
Victorian villa
Bryan. Nearby at 1201 Ridgedale, in another
Stone
late 1860s
advance
Millican to Bryan.
Randolph and
the Parker ]
block of S.
corrugated,
House
its pretensions
Side nei
vernacular as t
Swiss Avenue
Tucked within the curve
I&GN track at
the tiny Temple
home to ]
gregation and
the
and his
next
b~
Sullivan as
the
Michele
ruer site of St.
the modernistic
at 3O8 W.
an early
now the
Movin
of the original
tion ~
in the
other
ofthe
100
a
]cross
Charles
(800 Beck.
Kyle (a
Myers, Jr.
fire
Clinic
The pre-
town Bryan. the extensive.
ly altered
Courthouse and Jail
(1956
Scott
with
house in Texas,
em
with hard red
tine
been s
tion
concrete i
up to thi
buil
Williamson
E.
exhibits an
Dall
20th,
27th
between
name of this
reflect this.
Main Ave.,
into
as
Bryan
break,
929), designed
phar-
was
nd
Methodist
stream-
with
top
focus
is that of Mrs.
oft
Jr., and is still
contributes
n archi-
(1910) at 615 E.
of progressive
is
the Dr.
t l 1 E. 29th. At
of the district at
and
Main
Ave,
Pcussell ]
712 E~ 30th St.
scaled C. E.
Th~
(1876)
Haswell is
Victorian
Texas Ave. is the J.
he old College
~ last of
houses.
"'d" 'i 'w
Ol n gn ay
1504
R.
Members of
Phillips Addition
at 508 E. 30th St. and S.
W. Olin San.
his home terri
House at 600 E.
story French
S. Ennis St. and E,
al style J.
partner ]. B.
& Harris on
School ~
Austin anchors the
Giesecke
Near it, at 715 E, 31st
trict is
E. 31st and S. Haswetl.
moved to this site in 1984
and restored by Dr. and
Mrs. J. Russell Bradley.
AtE. 31st St. and 701 S
Texas Ave. is the Searcy
Clinic (1950), a low-lying~
Frank
ins
studio
.~ 1940s
a
our-
:te of the
101 Green
Road
and
pa~ner
sin
undeveloped territow on the southeast side of
town. ~
makes
mat~
(1961) by C. R.
whit
roof in 1998. Partners
A. M. Martin and James H
Lemmon, Jr., of the same
for
across
2909-2919
(c, 1956),
tion
Home
Villa
B. Thompson
East 29th
:tinics
Scott &
, band
1953,
~ at 3500 S.
framed
Heights
by I
:he sweet
spill
Cavitt Estate Holick Lane. Built
and
D. Fitch, this was the
1950S. CRS partners
first of t Pefia liVed here, as
Wayside Dr. A&M landscape
ly
area (no longer
an
Ma of
Land de Dr. is
D. Mayfidd, Jr.). tudio
four-story, roof deck.
& Loan Matthews's
Charti, and
Assoc
rurally
Jr.
designed by Frederick W.
sot of landscape
house at
was the
architect H.
Brookside Dr~ is an
House
rolling
The combination
stone, wood, and
rifles the ~
Brazos A. Varisco
415 E. Brookside
as the
Mayfiel&
modern house is the now
slightly altered Margaret
Pearce House ( 1941 ) at
303 Crescent Dr, by
Houston architects MacKie
& Kamrath. The most stun-
ning modern house in North
Oakwood is the Clifton C.
Carter House at 411
Crescent Dr. (1956),
designed by Wit
Carter, an LBJ
architectun
Oakwood
(c. 1952
On the east
leads to
and th~
House
Tanglewood
Nash wit~
which displays
activated profile.
Across S. Texas
North ¢
est in
unassuming entrance
which
~ the
f the
the
A&M
TY
~ of
most
facto
of
Texas A&M got
symbolize
tn
/ and
and the
mic
sense
10
became
presence
San Antonio, a
Ford. The
vast ]
Evans
consumed
Finn), a
linked
South
the west is
beneath its
buildings that
Flanking
and
lawn are
. Scoates Hall
appear
Giesecke
east is even
as a 1920s
and
is the
architects),
and Study
Evans Library
Kyle Held,
est
of
Dallas, the
by Harper,
Science Library
a
also by Chumney,
1981),
The
Presidential
Houston and
Obata &
C
O
L
E G T A T I 0 N
open
group of
of the
tional and
1938,
A&M
of arch
station
until
opposite the campus
'n an array of
~ early 1920s a
College Park, south
y 1930s,
930s, and institu-
most entirely by
from 1929 until 1956, .
I6 COLLEGE
tre80~q
began to build
substantial in size,
University and N, Nagle.
marking
A&M architecture
Lawyer,
CRSJike use
treatment is the
N. Colleg
North Gate is the
and N. College Main,
A&M Church of
with Milton Foy
and N. Church is the !
until the
continua-
tO
ohn
not
Park
facul-
college
Texas
~ark
the
byRobert
survives
401-405 University and
the City
commerc
Churcl
STATION 17
·
Timber Lane leads through Newton. Adjoining is Canterbury House (1975) by Dav d G
e B'nai Brith Hillel
Dr. and E, Dexter
ard Gabert & W,
~ Park,
nt
Daniel
tration
have
Station
rk are those
brilliantb
and the first
W~rflor House
W. Dexter.
Drive, on
park,
E. Vrooman
Harry S. Ransom
that on the west side of
Lee in a
Langford
tie. College Park launched
Professor Clark on a
long career as one of
College Station's fore-
most residential real
estate developers,
~n a
18 C 0 L L £ G ~ S T A T 'i O N
Station architect Rodne,
Rother's Bookstor~
floor office space
enclave of
the desi
descends a
(1953,
on its site
Caudill House and its companion
nicate the enth
of post oak woodland
The Knoll.
CRS.
from
COLLEGE STATION 19
Center Hospital (1987, Page
the
by
25O9
sire house by
A&M,
Tin
Foley's
Scott & W
Clinic
(1989),
(1982); its
Uni~
20 ICoLL¢C~ STATIOt,¢,