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Mary Marshall House

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1929, O’Neil Ford. 1819 N. Bell Ave.

While working with David Williams in Dallas, Ford moonlighted on several projects, including this house for Mary Marshall, head of the Art Department at the College of Industrial Arts (DD9). Perhaps the first building to reflect Ford’s study of Texas’s vernacular architecture, this L-plan house retains such stylistic features of the time as corner quoins and gables trimmed like pediments. But the house’s simplicity and sense of craft make a subtle shift away from the conventional revival practices of the time. Interior woodwork was crafted by Ford’s brother Lynn and David Williams’s nephew Bub Merrick. Ford installed the brick flooring of the living room.

Mary Marshall was prominent in Ford’s early career by helping him secure his appointment as the restoration architect of La Villita in San Antonio and steering the Little Chapel (DD9) project to Ford and Swank.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Mary Marshall House", [Denton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD10.

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, 235-235.

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