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St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

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1960, Harwell Hamilton Harris, with Charles Adams. 1001 S. Goliad St.

Harris was director of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin from 1951 to 1955. Harris and his associate, Adams, organized St. Mary’s Church around a patio through which one gains access to the four buildings of the parish complex. Inside, deep exposed wood columns and beams create a visual procession through the long and tall space. The wood-shingled roofs and over-scaled wooden beams and brackets seem of dubious regional relevance to West Texas but connect with Harris’s interest in the work of Pasadena architects Greene and Greene.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. Mary’s Episcopal Church", [Big Spring, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL16.

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, 397-397.

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