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Myers Drug Building (I. Schwartz and Co.)

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1906, 1927, Oscar Ruffini. 29 S. Chadbourne St.

The two-story, red brick and stone building with blunt classical detail began as a one-story dry goods store designed by Ruffini with cast-iron storefront columns. The second-floor addition of 1927 was accorded an order of brick pilasters and entablature, accented by stone capitals and stringcourses. The result is a plain version of other classical Ruffini designs of the 1920s. The vertical extensions of the pilasters above the parapet are chimneys.

Across S. Chadbourne Street at number 30, the six-story Trust Building (San Angelo Bank and Trust Co.; 1910, Sanguinet and Staats) was San Angelo’s first skyscraper. It is a more conventionally detailed counterpart to Sanguinet and Staats’s Flatiron Building in Fort Worth (FW14).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

R. E. Harris and Brother Building
Stephens Central Library (Hemphill-Wells Department Store)
Verizon Building (San Angelo Telephone Company Building)
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
Tom Green County Courthouse

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Myers Drug Building (I. Schwartz and Co.)", [San Angelo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SS7.

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, 409-409.

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