”Air Condition Village”

”Air Condition Village”

”Air Condition Village” Photograph by Gerald Moorhead
1954–1956, Ned A. Cole. Nasco and Park View drs. and Daugherty St.

On these three streets just west of 6500 Burnet Rd., twenty-two single-family houses were built by sixteen different builders in various architectural styles under the direction of local architect Cole, who served at the time as chairman of the Committee on Air Conditioning of the National Association of Home Builders. Cole collaborated with his colleague Werner Dornberger at the University of Texas's Department of Architectural Engineering to integrate central air-conditioning with market-rate housing.

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