Blackstone Building (Tyler, Texas)

The Blackstone Building is an office tower in the center of Texas City Tyler. It was built in 1938 according to plans of coming from Fort Worth architect Preston M. Geren in the Art Deco style.

History

The three blocks north of the city center along Broadway Avenue built office building was built in the late 1930s in the era of the oil boom in East Texas. To meet the urgent need for office space, funded the resident Tyler businessman Edmond P. McKenna construction. The commissioned architect Preston M. Geren created a five-story brick building whose distinctive corner tower on the southwest side emphasizes the urban location on one of the main streets in the city center. The name was inspired by the neighboring building in 1985 collapsed Blackstone Hotel.

After completion it housed, among other offices of oil companies, geologists, lawyers and engineers. Until the 1950s it also served as the site of the Union Bus Terminal. Today the building is the seat of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Tyler (Tyler Chamber of Commerce).

The Blackstone Building is one of two Art Deco buildings built office in Tyler. On 14 June 2002, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Source

• Jonas Titas, Historic Tyler, Inc.

32.353056 - 95.300278Koordinaten: 32 ° 21 '11 "N, 95 ° 18 ' 1" W

• Office buildings in the United States
• Monument on the National Register of Historic Places (Texas )
• Building of the Art Deco in the United States
• Construction of modernity in the United States
• Built in the 1930s
• Tyler (Texas)
• Building in Texas