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Blue Star Inn (Desert Inn Motel)

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1958, Enslie O. Oglesby Jr. 2405 E. 2nd St.

East 2nd Street, I-20 Business, is the old U.S. 80, merging on the east with Front Street in Midland. What is remarkable is that not only was a young architect of “Bud” Oglesby’s talent commissioned to design a highway-side motel, but that it is still in business, and still recognizable. The two-story administration building, its wide, low porte-cochere carried on exposed beams and slender pipe columns, presides over a collection of side-gabled, one-story wings containing the guest rooms. These surround the central parking area.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Blue Star Inn (Desert Inn Motel)", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT35.

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, 467-467.

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