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Gainesville Municipal Building

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1957, Wyatt C. Hedrick. 200 S. Rusk St.

This long, low, flat-roofed, one-story city hall is one of the few midcentury insertions in the historic center of Gainesville. A west-facing loggia has piers faced with rough limestone. The dark brown brick core of the building is shaded by extended eaves on all sides.

Across S. Rusk Street is the Gainesville Fire Department (1918; 115 E. Pecan Street), a two-story California Mission–styled structure of red and buff brick with deep, bracketed eaves, and a three-story hose-drying tower.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Morton Museum of Cooke County (Gainesville City Hall, Fire Station, Jail)
Butterfield Stage (Carnegie Library)
Cooke County Courthouse
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
South Gainesville Residential District

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Gainesville Municipal Building", [Gainesville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD18.

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, 238-238.

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