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Charles R. Lynch Architects Building (Ted Lokey Oil and Tire Company Building)

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c. 1950; 2012 renovated, Charles R. Lynch. 1001 SE 3rd Ave.

A pair of one-story brick commercial buildings in the northeast industrial quadrant of the city were saved from demolition and recycled into architectural offices. The rose brick walls and low-pitched gable roofs on the front office building and rear shop building reflect the utilitarian function of an automotive service facility. The interiors were cleared of accumulated debris, the brick walls were exposed, and openwork steel trusses were revealed. In 2015 Lynch completed the recycling of an adjoining early-twentieth-century

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Charles R. Lynch Architects Building (Ted Lokey Oil and Tire Company Building)", [Amarillo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AO10.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 338-339.

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