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Cobbs-Hemphill Parking Center

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1955, Butler-Brasher Company. 1319 Ave. J

As downtown Lubbock’s retail buildings expanded in the 1950s, so did the need for more parking. Two local department stores, Cobb’s and the Hemphill-Wells Company, cooperatively built and operated this seven-story garage (two levels are below grade), designed by Herbert Brasher as an open concrete deck structure railed with pleated metal panels. The perky blade sign on Avenue J signaled the garage’s location to shoppers on 13th Street. A block south of the parking center at 1420 Avenue J is the two-ftory Gibson Garage (1950, Sam Kalesky). The sweeping curve of its corner bay and its setback from 15th Street accommodated its original tenant, the Firestone Tire Company.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Carlock Building
Goodwill Shoppe (S. H. Kress and Company Building)
Old Baker Buildings 1 and 2
Lubbock County Courthouse
Pioneer Condominiums (Hotel Lubbock, Pioneer Hotel)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Cobbs-Hemphill Parking Center", [Lubbock, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LK5.

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, 379-379.

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