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First Presbyterian Church

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1950, 1952, J. Ellsworth Powell. 1401 N. Sam Houston Ave.

The residential neighborhood north of downtown, the College Campus Addition, is where the oldest religious congregations in Odessa tended to relocate in the 1940s and 1950s if their existing near-downtown sites lacked adequate property for expansion. Powell’s skill as an architect is evident at this church, a streamlined Cotswolds-influenced complex of rustic limestone walls, minimal windows, and expansive gabled roofs expressively surfaced with thick redwood shakes. Powell positioned three gabled masses along the church’s front. These are linked by low connecting roofs that frame a pair of courtyards and screen a half-block parking lot from the street.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "First Presbyterian Church", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT30.

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, 466-466.

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