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Robert L. More Tire Company

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1920s; 1942, E. Gilbert Mason and Associates. 1903 Wilbarger St.

In 1942, Robert L. More Jr. commissioned Mason, a theatrical designer and architect, to modernize his gas station and car maintenance garage. Mason, who had grown up in Vernon, worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Los Angeles before returning to Texas to set up practice in Fort Worth in the mid-1930s. He added a full-width streamlined canopy across the front. Mason also remodeled the private museum More installed on the building’s second floor to contain the nationally recognized collection of bird’s eggs that More’s father had assembled beginning in 1888.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

W. T. Waggoner Estate Building
Wilbarger County Courthouse and Courthouse Square

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Robert L. More Tire Company", [Vernon, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AQ29.

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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, 325-325.

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