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415 North Grant Building (First National Bank Building)

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1949. 415 N. Grant Ave.

Whereas downtown Midland is primarily a zone of office buildings (and parking lots), downtown Odessa retains a measure of its mid-twentieth-century retail infrastructure (and parking lots). N. Grant Avenue, the main street, is one hundred feet wide. Between 3rd and 8th streets, it is divided by a planted median installed in the 1990s. The former First National Bank Building (constructed by the Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America) is a dignified two-story stone-clad building, but it is set midblock alongside retail stores as though it were another storefront, an indication of just how rapid Odessa’s transformation from forlorn West Texas town to booming oil center was at the end of World War II. The lapped horizontal panels beneath second-floor windows originally contained a planter with an integrated sprinkling and drainage system. The adjoining building (1949) at 413 N. Grant shares many of the First National Bank’s architectural traits.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "415 North Grant Building (First National Bank Building)", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT23.

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, 464-464.

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