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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE
Buildings were
the dreams of our ancestors in brick and mortar. These modest (and
occasionally) grandiose dreams lost to disaster have inspired us to
record what remains - before progress claims the survivors.
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require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first,
their doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful
and pleasing in doing it - which is itself another form of duty."
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TEXAS ARCHITECTURE-
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Texas
Banks - Buildings Worthy of Your Interest
Brick
Collecting
Texas
Bridges - Iron bridges, railroad drawbridges, bascule bridges,
causeways and suspension
Carnegie
Libraries in Texas - Of the 1689 Carnegie Libraries built,
32 were in Texas.
Texas
Churches - Churches in Texas
Cornerstones
- The first to be set - the last to be saved.
Texas
Courthouses - Texas courthouses. Illustrated with photos
or old post cards
Texas
Depots - Texas railroad architecture from "cathedral" stations
to the lowly switching tower
Drive-by
Architecture - Buildings of special interest
Endangered
Buildings in Texas - Historic Properties of Texas
Texas
Gargoyles - Ugly is Beautiful. Scary, whimsical, and allegorical
details on Texas buildings that could afford them
Texas
Gas Stations - Abandoned, obsolete, put to new uses, defunct
or fictitious
Texas
Grain Elevators - Grain elevators, silos ... Landmarks casting
long shadows
Texas
Hotels
- "Rooms With a Past" series - Texas hotels built
before 1950.
Texas Jails - The Texas county jails. "The Big House" may
be in Huntsville, but "The Small House" is everywhere
Texas
Lodges - Lodges in Texas
Texas
Monuments - Texas monuments & shrines
Texas
Museums - Museums in Texas
Pitted
Dates - 165 Years of Texas Architectural History Written
in Stone
Post Offices in Texas - Going Postal: Post Offices in Texas
Razed
in Texas - A look at our lost architectural heritage
Texas
Schoolhouses - The most modest of Texas buildings
Texas
Skyscrapers
Texas
Stores - Country Stores, General Stores, Drugs Stores, Feed
Stores
Texas
Theatres - America's most endangered buildings
Texas
Water Towers - The unsung tin men of Texas small towns
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Indianola
Remnants
by Mike Cox 5-1-08
Indianola, once the “Queen City of the West,” recovered from a killer
hurricane in 1875 but it did not survive a second devastating storm
in 1886... If you want to see some of Indianola’s stately Victorian
houses, just go to Victoria or Cuero...
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SPECIAL
SUBJECT
Victorian
Secrets
Photo essay 12-10-07
Painted Ladies, Gingerbread and Carpenter Gothic in Texas.
Mike Price and TE Photos
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Texas
Architecture - Recommended Books
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