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Childress Municipal Building

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1926, Sanguinet, Staats and Hedrick. 315 Commerce St. NW

The principal civic and commercial buildings in Childress are unified with the use of a common brick, orange to tawny in color. This two-story building is ordered with brick pilasters with Greek Corinthian capitals at three bays each side of the central entrance, where a portal is defined by paired pilasters, a stone entablature, and an open balustrade in the parapet.

Nearby at 210 3rd Street NW, the former U.S. Post Office (1935, Townes and Funk) is a simple, orange brick Spanish Colonial–styled building with round-arched windows, a stone door surround, and a parapet with a shallow, domed coping. The building has been the Childress County Heritage Museum since 1981.

The five-story, orange brick Hotel Childress (1928, Wyatt C. Hedrick; 219 Avenue B NW) has a tall first floor ordered by brick pilasters. Second-story arched windows and the cornice are ornamented with classical swags.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Old Montgomery Ward Store
Michie Building
Palace Theater
Childress County Courthouse

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Childress Municipal Building", [Childress, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH4.

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, 363-363.

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