La Grange Casino Hall
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Senior Citizens Activity Center (La Grange Casino Hall)
1881. 255 N. Franklin St.
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(Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )
The La Grange Casino Society, a German social club, constructed this building for a school with their hall and theater on the second floor. The Casino Society lasted only three years, however, and the two-story Italianate masonry building served as the high school until 1923 and, subsequently, such civic functions as the city hall and the volunteer fire department. A proposed rehabilitation (c. 2011, BBA Architects) will reconstruct the missing columned porch and pediment on the north facade facing the railroad tracks.
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Location: La Grange, TexasRegional Overviews:Materials:
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Senior Citizens Activity Center (La Grange Casino Hall)", [La Grange, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-PF31.
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Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 87-87.
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