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Petroleum Building

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1929, Peters, Strange and Bradshaw. 111 S. Scurry St.

Like the Combs-Worley Building (TP22) in Pampa and the Petroleum Building (MT1) in Midland, this six-story Art Deco, brick and stone office building was intended to house oil entrepreneurs and other professional offices. Stylized regional floral and plant motifs in stone enrich the building, as do relief figures of Aztec warriors with corn and serpent motifs on pier capitals at the parapet level. A corbel table runs beneath the second-story windows. Ground-floor commercial spaces once housed a drugstore with a soda fountain; the show windows are now blocked up.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Potton House
Howard County Courthouse
Hotel Settles (Settles Hotel)
Big Spring City Hall and Municipal Auditorium
St. Thomas Catholic Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Petroleum Building", [Big Spring, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SL12.

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, 395-395.

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