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Fort Stockton Police Department (First National Bank Building of Fort Stockton)

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1912, Westerman and Mitchell, builders. 123 N. Main St.

This former bank is a long two-story structure of irregularly shaped masonry (still visible on the upper party wall). On the street facades, the walls have been covered in plaster incised to look like coursed masonry. An entablature and a pediment of painted pressed metal are supported by four two-story-tall fluted columns with Doric capitals and pronounced entasis, and the pediment’s raised and incised decoration includes a cartouche and a garland. The bank failed in the Great Depression, and the building is now a police station.

The three- (originally two-) story Rooney Hotel (1910) anchors the south end of the 100 block of N. Main, which is architecturally intact but largely vacant. The gap between N. Main’s business district and the S. Main Street courthouse district corresponds to the town’s early-twentieth-century divisions between old-new, traditional-modern, adobe-masonry, and Mexican-Anglo.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Annie Riggs Museum (Koehler Hotel)
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Pecos County Courthouse
Historic Fort Stockton

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Fort Stockton Police Department (First National Bank Building of Fort Stockton)", [Fort Stockton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV3.

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, 437-437.

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