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Courtyard by Marriott Amarillo Downtown (Fisk Medical and Professional Building)

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1928, Guy A. Carlander; 2011 rehabilitated, WD Architects. 724 S. Polk St.

Built by a group of investors led by Charles A. Fisk, president of the Amarillo Bank and Trust, the ten-story Fisk Building features a tall ground floor faced in cream-colored terra-cotta with five lancet windows in each bay. Above, seven stories of red brick are bare of ornament, while the top two stories are overlaid with terra-cotta details of a Prairie Style character, reflecting Carlander’s Chicago education. The Fisk Building was rehabilitated in 2011 as a 107-room hotel, the largest private investment in the downtown in forty years, and a federal historic tax credit project. Only slivers of the original terrazzo floors survive on the interior.

Guy Anton Carlander (1888–1975) was raised in Kansas and graduated from the Chicago Art Institute in 1913. He worked as an inspector for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad in the Southwest, where he designed numerous passenger stations. Carlander moved to Amarillo, where he established his practice in 1920.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Courtyard by Marriott Amarillo Downtown (Fisk Medical and Professional Building)", [Amarillo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AO12.

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, 339-340.

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