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Stark Museum of Art

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1978, PageSoutherlandPage. 712 W. Green Ave.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

Nelda Childers Stark built the museum diagonally across from the Stark House ( OP2) to contain the collection of American art assembled by her husband, H. J. Lutcher Stark. The dramatic one- and two-story building, virtually windowless, features a second story that is cantilevered over the diagonally aligned entrance loggia. Vermont marble facing and highly exaggerated scuppers seek to invest the museum with a sense of monumentality.

The museum was the first of a series of buildings and places that the Stark Foundation built to give Orange the cultural infrastructure it previously lacked. Across Green Avenue from the museum is the block-square Stark Park (1980). South of the park at 707 W. Main Avenue is the 1,500-seat Frances Ann Lutcher Theater (1980, PageSoutherland-Page). At 803 W. Green is Orange City Hall, occupying the house that another Lutcher grandson, Edgar W. Brown Jr., built in 1924; E. H. Stubee Company of Houston was the architect.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

W. H. Stark Mansion Museum
First Presbyterian Church
Orange County Courthouse
Trinity Lutheran Church
Brown Center (Linden at Pinehurst)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Stark Museum of Art", [Orange, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-OP3.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 379-379.

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