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Hutchinson County Historical Museum (Grand Hardware)

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1927; 1977 renovated. 618 N. Main St.

This brick two-story former hardware store (it accommodated a hotel on the second floor) was converted to a museum with displays on the county’s history from prehistoric times through the discovery and exploitation of oil. The museum also contains the mural Big City News, painted in 1939 in the former U.S. Post Office building by José Aceves, sponsored by the Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts, a New Deal program. The mural was restored and relocated to the museum when the post office building was closed.

On adjacent blocks in the downtown are the Streamlined Moderne Morley Theater (1947, Jack Corgan) at 701 N. Main and the modernist seven-story former Hotel Borger (1952, Cantrell Company; 116 W. 6th Street). The four-story Brutalist Ray MacEnergy Building nearby at 300 W. 6th was built in 1985 to house the Phillips Petroleum Company’s operations in Borger, the site of its first refinery (1927).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Hutchinson County Historical Museum (Grand Hardware)", [Borger, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-TP9.

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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, 354-354.

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