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Fredda Durham Turner Children’s Museum

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1989, Lawrence Holdren Connally

South of the main house, beyond the stables, is the Children’s Museum, a two-story structure named for the principal donor, a daughter of Fred and Juliette Turner. The symmetrical, postmodernist axial design has an octagonal entrance pavilion connected to one- and two-story rectangular brick-clad volumes. At the top of the entrance, a second-floor office has a panopticon-like view of all the museum’s public areas. The entrance features a diagonal diapered pattern of red and buff bricks, recalling Cesar Pelli’s Ley Student Center at Rice University in Houston. Connally was a former Midland associate of Frank Welch, who later moved to Austin.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Museum of the Southwest (Fred and Juliette Turner House)
Marian Blakemore Planetarium
St. Ann’s Catholic Church
George W. Bush Childhood Home
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects Building (Frank Welch Associates Architects Building)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Fredda Durham Turner Children’s Museum", [Midland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT13.1.

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, 459-459.

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