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Leopold Osteopathic Clinic

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1947, J. J. Black. 503 N. Sam Houston Ave.

Another highpoint of mid-twentieth-century modernist architecture in downtown Odessa is this two-and-a-half-story medical professional building, slotted onto what was once a single-lot site (now a parking lot desert). Midland architect Black used crisp cast-stone horizontals to divide the clinic’s exterior surfaces into contrasting planes of red and buff brick. A steel-and-glass stair window on the north side rises between the first and second floors and roof. The clinic was built here to be near the new Ector County Hospital (1949, Haynes and Kirby) at 410 N. Golder Avenue, which is now the tail end of the Medical Center Health System’s Center for Women and Infants (2013, JSA; 500 W. 4th Street), a Postmodern design that is the most architecturally imaginative component of MCH’s sprawling seven-block healthcare complex.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Leopold Osteopathic Clinic", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT27.

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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, 465-465.

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