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Monahans Sandhill State Park

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1957, Pierce Norris Pace McCutchan and Associates. 2500 EI-20, exit 86

In the late 1940s, Katherine and Conrad Dunagan of Monahans were inspired by Texas writer Roy Bedichek’s Adventures with a Texas Naturalist (1947) to preserve some 3,400 privately owned acres in the Monahans Sandhills area (at the southeast tip of a dune field that stretches 200 miles northwest into New Mexico). Their attempts to have it designated a national park failed, but they succeeded in having it become a state park in 1957. The dunes in the area, some up to seventy feet tall, are still “active,” growing and changing shape in response to wind and weather. The Dunagan Visitor Center is a single-story building framed in long concrete beams, measuring 40 x 95 feet and raised on concrete columns for a view of the park.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Million Barrel Storage Site
Ward County Courthouse
Security Bank (First National Bank)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Monahans Sandhill State Park", [Monahans, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT40.

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, 468-469.

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