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Denton Municipal Buildings (City Hall, Assembly Building, Civic Center, Pool)

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1963–1968, O’Neil Ford and Associates, with Roland Laney. 215 E. McKinney St.

This municipal complex, just two blocks from Dodson’s monumental courthouse, is low-key and understated by contrast. The U-shaped group is set in a parklike space, set well back from surrounding streets, with an entrance through a sunken courtyard surrounded by a shady pergola. The structural grid of concrete columns and beams is moderated by perforated ceramic light fixtures, wood lattices, and fir paneling, all signature Ford details of the 1950s and 1960s. The circular Civic Center Building has a cable-supported roof similar to a bicycle wheel that provides a large space clear of internal supports, a structural system Ford’s office employed at La Villita Assembly Hall in San Antonio.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Denton Municipal Buildings (City Hall, Assembly Building, Civic Center, Pool)", [Denton, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD7.

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, 234-234.

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