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Stamford Insurance Agency (Bryant-Link Building)

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1900; 1928 remodeled, Kelwood Company. 120–124 S. Swenson St.

The most spectacular facade in Stamford, and indeed in the region, is the Spanish Plateresque headquarters of the former Bryant-Link retail chain. The farm implement and dry goods business, established in Anson in 1884, built a one-story store in 1900, remodeling it in 1928 with this highly ornate facade of cream-colored cast-stone panels manufactured in San Antonio. The facade may have been designed by San Antonio architect Robert B. Kelly, the partner of H. C. Wood in the Kelwood Company, a design-build company using a variety of Spanish modes in the 1920s. West Texas Utilities purchased and refurbished the building in 1973, with other tenants in recent years.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

U.S. Post Office
Stamford City Hall
Swenson Land and Cattle Company Building
St. John’s Methodist Church
J. P. Astin House

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Stamford Insurance Agency (Bryant-Link Building)", [Stamford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SB2.

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, 298-298.

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