Overview of the Collection |
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Repository: |
Dallas Municipal Archives |
Creator: | City of Dallas |
Title: | Municipal Building Contracts |
Dates: | 1913 -1914 |
Quantity: | 5 linear inches |
Abstract: | Municipal building contracts for building a City Hall at 2014 Main Street |
Identification: | 97 - 020 |
Language: | Records are in English |
Collection documents the design and construction of the City of Dallas 1914 city hall, called the Municipal Building. In May 1910 Dallas officials determined that the City Hall, then situated on the northwest corner of Commerce and Akard Streets, had become too small to serve adequately the city's population of over 90,000. They sold the property to Adolphus Busch, who built the Adolphus Hotel at that site. A number of locations were considered for the new municipal facility before C. C. Slaughter suggested this site, which the city purchased in the fall of 1911. Voters approved a bond issue in an April 1912 election, and construction began in May 1913. The completed building opened on Oct. 17, 1914, to coincide with the start of the State Fair.
C. D. Hill and Co. of Dallas designed the five-story Beaux-Arts City Hall, constructed of Texas gray granite. Ornate Corinthian columns line the Classical facade. The interior of the structure, originally finished with marble floors and mahogany woodwork, has been remodeled periodically to provide additional office space. In 1956 the adjacent municipal building was erected to serve the growing city. In the basement of this structure on November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
The collection contains contracts for all aspects of the design and construction of the Municipal Building.
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Dallas -- Texas -- History | ||
Historic buildings -- Texas -- Dallas -- Conservation and restoration. | ||
Dallas (Tex.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. |
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Box | Folder |
Title, Date | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | C. D. Hill and Company Architects, contract for architecture plans, January 22, 1913 | ||||||||||
2 | The Fred A. Jones Building Company, contract for building contractor, March 12, 1913 | |||||||||||
Report on two alternate bids to be added to contract, February 7, 1913 | ||||||||||||
3 | Noelke-Richards Iron Works, contract for structural iron, August 4, 1913 | |||||||||||
4 | W. M. Clower Electric Company, contract for electrical wiring, October 10, 1913 | |||||||||||
5 | Kinnison Brothers Heating and Ventilating, contract for heating and ventilating plant, October 10, 1913 | |||||||||||
6 | H. T. Kilpatrick, contract for plumbing and drainage, October 17, 1913 | |||||||||||
7 | Otis Elevator Company, contract for elevators and electric sidewalk lifts, November 7, 1913 | |||||||||||
8 | Oscar Daniels Company, contract for steel & iron construction, November 24, 1913 | |||||||||||
9 | R. Russell Stapler, contract for superintendent of construction, November 26, 1913 | |||||||||||
10 | Mayfield Lumber Company, contract for lumber, December 12, 1913 | |||||||||||
11 | Mosler Safe Company, contract for vault doors, December 12, 1913 | |||||||||||
12 | Jones Lumber Company, contract for lumber, December 15, 1913 | |||||||||||
13 | Bonner Marshall Brick Company, contract for face brick, December 29, 1913 | |||||||||||
14 | Bloomington Cut Stone Company, contract for cut stone, January 7, 1914 | |||||||||||
Dallas Builders Supply Company, contract for Spencer Turbine Vacuum Cleaner, January 5, 1914 | ||||||||||||
15 | Ogburn Gravel Company, contract for brick sand, January 7, 1914 | |||||||||||
16 | Dallas Press Brick Company, contract for common brick, January 7, 1914 | |||||||||||
17 | Imperial Water Proof Company, Ltd, contract for waterproof materials, January 14, 1914 | |||||||||||
18 | Collinsville Manufacturing Company, contract for sheet metal, tile roofing, and metal windows, January 23, 1914 | |||||||||||
19 | Uhrich Planing Mill Company, contract for mill work, January 21, 1914 | |||||||||||
20 | A. L. Gooch, contract for granite, February 9, 1914 | |||||||||||
W. P. Crosman, contract for concrete sand, January 28, 1914 | ||||||||||||
21 | Spuck Iron and Foundry Company, contract for ornamental iron and steel work, February 11, 1914 | |||||||||||
22 | S. F. Bowser and Company, contract for gasoline tank, February 18, 1914 | |||||||||||
23 | D. C. Collawn, contract for plastering, February 20, 1914 | |||||||||||
24 | New York Architectural Terra Cotta Company, contract for terra cotta, February 23, 1914 | |||||||||||
25 | The Texas Glass and Paint Company, contract for glass, March 9, 1914 | |||||||||||
26 | P. M. Bruner Granitoid Company, contract for sidewalk lights, March 16, 1914 | |||||||||||
27 | Vermont Marble Company, contract for furnishing and performing all marble work, March 30, 1914 | |||||||||||
28 | Otto Bowman, contract for painting, April 20, 1914 | |||||||||||
29 | Moroney Hardware Company, contract for hardware, May 20, 1914 | |||||||||||
30 | J. Desco and Son, contract for tile floor and base, June 1, 1914 | |||||||||||
31 | Dallas Roofing Company, contract for roofing, July 1, 1914 | |||||||||||
Bloomington Cut Stone Company, contract for cut stone, June 10, 1914 | ||||||||||||
32 | Uhrich Planing Mill Company, contract for counters, July 13, 1914 | |||||||||||
33 | Egan Fixture Company, contract for electrical fixtures and fans, July 22, 1914 | |||||||||||
34 | Art Metal Construction Company, contract for metal vault filing devices, July 24, 1914 | |||||||||||
35 | C. A. Bryant Company, contract for auditorium seats, July 24, 1914 |