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Helen Wisdom and Harry A. Redman House

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1949, Cliff May. 2900 Palo Verde Dr.

Los Angeles designer Cliff May produced one of his signature, sprawling, one-story California ranch houses in Odessa’s elite Country Club Place subdivision for oilman Harry A. Redman and his wife, Helen. Faced with thick wooden shakes and courses of pink and gray granite laid in a random ashlar bond, the eight-thousand-square-foot house is configured in thin wings that wrap around an east-facing patio. When May designed the Stone House (LK21) in Lubbock three years later, he demonstrated in its more compact plan his awareness of the wind and dust conditions of the West Texas plains.

Writing Credits

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Helen Wisdom and Harry A. Redman House", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT37.

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, 467-468.

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