1949, J. Ellsworth Powell. 501 N. Grant Ave.
The bold, bull-nosed corner of the former Dunlap’s department store, its split-faced ledgestone-clad reverse-tapered piers, and the inset entrance recess with its upward flared concrete canopy convey the mid-twentieth-century modern exuberance of J. Ellsworth Powell (1914–1983) of Odessa. Powell was never a registered architect; he practiced his entire career as a “designer,” executing a wide array of building types in Odessa and surrounding communities.