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Josephine Wardlaw and O. P. Jones House

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1918, Smith and Townes. 1620 S. Tyler St.

Built for banker and Midland County rancher Oscar P. Jones, this imposing two-story house has Prairie Style and Craftsman features. Faced with brown Acme brick and trimmed with stone, the symmetrical house has a front porch roofed with green tiles, and the second floor is wrapped with a green-tiled skirt roof over brackets. The stepped parapet around the flat roof has a contrasting stone coping. Grand residences in northwest Texas built in the second decade of the twentieth century looked to the elite houses of Elizabeth Boulevard (FW48) in Fort Worth and Swiss Avenue (DS85) in Dallas as architectural models.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Josephine Wardlaw and O. P. Jones House", [Amarillo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AO21.

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, 343-343.

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