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Stephens Central Library (Hemphill-Wells Department Store)

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1973, Chakos Zentner Marcum; 2011 remodeled, Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, with Kinney Franke. 33 W. Beauregard Ave.

The library is a playful remodeling of the former department store. Italian-born San Angelo artist Remo Scardigli created cast-concrete panels (depicting mainstays of Texan civic art: cattle, sheep, horses, farming tools, and pump jacks) that were installed above the entrances. Curved brick corners date the original store building shell, while Holzman Moss Bottino’s zigzag glazing and colored-tile forms both complement and contrast with the brick. The 1973 building replaced Korn and Morgan’s five-story Baker-Hemphill Building (1929).

On the same block at 36 W. Beauregard is the eight-story Wells Fargo Building (former Central National Bank) of 1967 by Ford, Powell and Carson and A. B. Swank Jr., who applied traditional Mexican brick vaults, brise soleil, louvered screens, and concrete pergolas to a modernist slab set atop a block-long podium.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Verizon Building (San Angelo Telephone Company Building)
Tom Green County Courthouse
Texas Theater
Myers Drug Building (I. Schwartz and Co.)
Old San Angelo National Bank

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Stephens Central Library (Hemphill-Wells Department Store)", [San Angelo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS2.

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, 407-407.

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