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South Overton Residential Historic District

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1907 and later. Bounded by Broadway and 19th sts., Ave. Q, and University Ave.

This district, the southern half of the original Overton Addition, located west of downtown Lubbock and extending to the Texas Tech campus, was developed by physician Marvin C. Overton, who platted the 640-acre addition in 1907 and promoted the planting of street trees. City-installed Thurber brick paving from the 1920s remains on Broadway and other streets. The city annexed the Overton Addition in the 1920s and extended city services, attracting a middle-class population of Texas Tech faculty, professionals, and business people. Because the Addition did not have restrictive covenants, institutional and commercial uses were drawn to Broadway, Avenue Q, and other busy streets within it.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Kent R. Hance Chapel
St. Elizabeth University Parish (St. Elizabeth Catholic Church)
Lubbock High School
Pauline Jacobs and O. R. Walker House
W. D. Green Community Building

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "South Overton Residential Historic District", [Lubbock, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LK16.

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, 382-382.

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