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Max Grossman House

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1955, Garland & Hilles Architects. 730 E. Kerbey Ave.

Between 1952 and 1964, Robert Garland (1926–2008) and David Hilles (1926–1997) designed dozens of modern houses that display a marked affinity for El Paso’s desert landscape and climate. The house for merchant Grossman, with its views up the west slopes of Mount Franklin, uses planes of red brick with raked mortar joints to anchor the house to the sloping site. Flat roofs with deep, hovering overhangs shade windows and frame views of the landscape. The house is pushed against the rear property line on Kerbey and burrowed into the side property line on N. Virginia Street so that living rooms can look out across a wide front lawn toward the mountains. The garage and service areas are on a lower level, out of view.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Max Grossman House", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP37.

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, 492-492.

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