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O. Henry Junior High School

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1954, Fehr and Granger. 2610 W. 10th St.
  • (Photograph by Jason Coleman)
  • (Photograph by Jason Coleman)
  • (Photograph by Jason Coleman)

This project became one of the firm's most important commissions. Still largely intact, the school is a modern flat-roofed building with expanses of windows that ushers in the post–World War II modernist ideals with a flexible, irregular form in contrast to the traditional I-shaped central-hall-plan school.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "O. Henry Junior High School", [Austin, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-AU60.

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