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Elizabeth Reynolds and Herman Gartner House

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1930, John F. Staub. 935 Hillcrest St.

Insurance executive Herman Gartner and his wife, Elizabeth Reynolds, commissioned Houston architect Staub to design this elaborate residence facing the River Crest Country Club golf course. The Flemish-gabled facade was inspired by an English house Staub observed while traveling in Europe in 1929. The horizontality of the porte-cochere provides counterpoint to the vertical massing of the entrance gable and chimney. Even more intricately detailed than his Houston projects, this brick one-and-a-half-story house is one of several Staub designed in the late 1920s for Fort Worth clients. An elegant detail is the one-foot tall brick landscape wall with stone cap that subtly delineates the public sidewalk from the private precinct of the front garden.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Elizabeth Reynolds and Herman Gartner House", [Fort Worth, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FW38.

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, 218-218.

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