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Municipal Building

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1926, Page Brothers. 400 Locust St.

Designed by one of Austin’s leading architectural firms, Page Brothers, this grand ensemble demonstrates how municipal governments in Texas in the twentieth century began to rival county administrations in the sophistication of their buildings. The Spanish Colonial Revival building in tan brick with red tile roofs is entered through a five-arched loggia. A pair of ornate towers with shell-bottomed balconies and low domes brackets the gabled facade. These towers give the building the appearance of a church. A rather plain two-story office wing extends along the south flank of the building, which is entered midblock through a pair of portals framed by twisted columns. The need for an auditorium inflated the size of the municipal building beyond that required for city offices.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Municipal Building", [Sweetwater, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL2.

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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, 391-391.

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