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Globe of the Great Southwest

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1961, J. Ellsworth Powell. 2308 Shakespeare Rd.

Odessa’s most surprising cultural attraction, a reconstruction of William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (built in 1599), is on the Odessa College campus. The full-scale replica was the project of Marjorie Morris, an Odessa High School English teacher who subsequently taught at Odessa College. Morris secured the support of the college administration and then spent nearly ten years raising funds to build the theater and the adjoining replica of Ann Hathaway’s house. These are compacted into a tight, walled triangular site on the south edge of the college campus. Powell adjusted his version of the Globe to its setting in two crucial respects: it is completely roofed and completely air-conditioned.

Odessa College was established in 1946. Deaderick Hall and Auditorium (1952, Preston M. Geren and Son; 2501 Andrews Highway), the college’s administration building, is mid-twentieth-century modern in style. SHW Group designed the brick and glass Saulsbury Campus Center (2014) on the 300 block of W. University Boulevard.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Globe of the Great Southwest", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT31.

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, 466-466.

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