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St. Ann’s Catholic Church

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1959 church, 1960 parish center, Martin and Lemmon; 2012 additions, Rhotenberry Wellen Architects. 1906 W. Texas Ave.

A. M. Martin and James H. Lemmon Jr. of Andrews, alumni of the Caudill Rowlett Scott architecture firm who practiced in Andrews from 1957 to 1963, executed several substantial modern commissions in Midland around 1960. For Midland’s oldest Catholic parish they designed this dramatic church, marked by repeating structural steel bents that support a long, gabled roof. The low gabled dormers and fascias of the gable ends of the nave and transepts are severely raked. The main entrance, at the church’s west end, originally led directly into the nave. Rhotenberry Wellen Architects added an entrance narthex and a 100-foot-long, skylit commons space that contains a square, 100-seat chapel under a pyramidal roof, along with a small memorial chapel. The tapering bell tower is formed of intersecting brick planes with white stone edges and has an open bell chamber at the top.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. Ann’s Catholic Church", [Midland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT11.

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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, 458-458.

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