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Buildings on North Highland Avenue

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1905–1937. 100–200 blocks of N. Highland Ave.

Several notable buildings are found on N. Highland Avenue. The former Palace Theater in a building of 1905 at number 220 combines southwestern motifs in earth-tone tiles on its Art Deco stepped facade of 1937. The flat white front of the Brite Building (1931, Leighton G. Knipe; 107–109 N. Highland), built by cattle baron Lucas C. Brite, has a pattern of inset tiles forming rectangles and following the stepped parapet, creating a subtle southwestern character. The south end of the block at 101 N. Highland is anchored by the former Marfa National Bank (1931, Leighton G. Knipe), with a broad, cave-like entrance arch outlined in colored ceramic tiles; it is now occupied by the Judd Architecture Studio. The Judd Foundation is housed in the two-story, red pressed-brick Kirby-Glasscock Building (1912; 104 N. Highland), a long, horizontal block with segmental-arched openings, a chamfered corner entrance, and a cornice with tall brackets.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Hotel Paisano (Hotel El Paisano)
Presidio County Courthouse and Jail
First Christian Church
La Mansana de Chinati/The Block
International Woman’s Foundation (Building 98, Fort D. A. Russell)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Buildings on North Highland Avenue", [Marfa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV23.

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, 445-446.

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