Beneath the lively wealth of polychrome terra-cotta decoration and tawny brick lies an unexpected institution to use such a lively scheme. Phelps's architectural masquerade competed with the similarly Gothic-inspired Smith-Young Tower ( SA42), built in the same year by Ayres and Ayres a short distance away.
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Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 153-153.
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