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El Paso Museum of History

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2007, Synthesis Architecture. 510 N. Santa Fe St.

From its beginning in 1974 as the Cavalry Museum, the 44,000-square-foot El Paso Museum of History has charted the history of the upper Rio Grande border region. Offset rectangular masses, sheathed in rock-faced concrete masonry units, windowless on the W. Missouri Avenue side, are fragmented into curved and angled shapes on the south side, facing what is left of Cleveland Square Park. Horizontal corrugated metal panels clad the entrance, and four vertical window bays are the only sources of daylight into the controlled exhibit areas.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Old San Francisco Historic District
El Paso Public Library
El Paso Scottish Rite Temple
Southwest University Park
El Paso Museum of Art (Greyhound Bus Station)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "El Paso Museum of History", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP7.

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, 476-476.

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