Post–World War II modernism comes to life with this building. The former office equipment store, turned coffee bar, with side walls in Roman brick, exhibits metal brise soleil in the upper portion of its two-story front elevation to shield large expanses of glass facing the street.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Clark and Courts Building", [Harlingen, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-MR23.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 300-300.
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