You are here

Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains and West » East Texas » Lovelady to Center » Lufkin (Angelina County) » Museum of East Texas (Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center)

Museum of East Texas (Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center)

-A A +A
1976, Wiener, Hill, Morgan and O’Neal; 1981, Wiener, Hill, Morgan, O’Neal and Sutton; 1990, Morgan O’Neal Hill and Sutton. 503 N. 2nd St.

The Arts Center opened in the city-owned St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church, built in 1906, which had been gutted by fire in 1969. The red brick church and education building, in a very plain Gothic mode with steep roofs, was expanded around a courtyard in 1981, and additions were completed in 1990 that mimic the church gables. The Shreveport-based architectural firms were successors to the practices of Samuel G. and William B. Wiener, Shreveport’s great mid-twentieth-century modern architects.

The structure for the Pitser Garrison Convention Center (Lufkin Civic Center; 1976, Wiener, Hill, Morgan and O’Neal) at 601 N. 2nd is a volumetric composition with deeply cantilevered roof masses anchored by stout corner blocks.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Houston Brookshire House
Angelina County Courthouse
Law Offices (Campbell Furniture Company)
Ward R. Burke U.S. Courthouse (U.S. Post Office)
Perry Building

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Museum of East Texas (Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center)", [Lufkin, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LC24.

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, 43-43.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,