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Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Building

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1933, Henry Coke Knight. 2312 San Gabriel St.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )
  • (The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

This stately Georgian Revival building commands attention with its dark red brick and white trim. The formal composition of a central two-story temple form connected by lower wings to two-story projecting wings may have been derived from schemes often used for country houses by eighteenth-century English architects Robert and James Adam.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Building", [Austin, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-AU68.

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