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Big Spring City Hall and Municipal Auditorium

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1932, Peters, Strange and Bradshaw. 310 Nolan St.

Big Spring commissioned the Lubbock firm that produced Lubbock High School (LK16.3) to design a municipal complex in a Spanish Colonial Revival style. This is pure regional eclecticism. Faced with tan brick and terracotta trim, the auditorium is entered from 3rd Street through a triple-arched porch flanked by twin towers that are topped with tall Churrigueresque domed towers. City government functions are located to the rear of the auditorium, facing 4th Street. The city hall and auditorium parallel a similarly conceived complex (SL2) in Sweetwater to assert Spanish-styled architecture, especially as interpreted by Lang and Witchell’s Fair Park Auditorium (DS91.1) of 1925 in Dallas.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Hotel Settles (Settles Hotel)
Howard County Courthouse
Petroleum Building
Potton House
Runnels Academy (Big Spring High School)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Big Spring City Hall and Municipal Auditorium", [Big Spring, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL13.

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, 396-396.

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