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Old Montgomery Ward Store

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1929, Wyatt C. Hedrick. 205 Commerce St. NW

The Montgomery Ward Company transitioned from a mail-order to a store-based retail business in 1928 by commissioning new stores with instantly recognizable architectural details in green glazed terra-cotta manufactured by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company of Chicago. These storefronts functioned as corporate icons and typified the widespread use of terra-cotta in commercial architecture in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Across the street at 200 N. Commerce is the Childress Lodge No. 695 AF and AM (1909), a narrow, two-story buff brick building with an angled corner entrance and scrolled parapets. The bronze lions’ heads mark the placement of the original sidewalk canopy hangers (the current canopy and posts are modern).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Childress Municipal Building
Palace Theater
Michie Building
Childress County Courthouse

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Old Montgomery Ward Store", [Childress, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH5.

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, 363-363.

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