Legal Arts Building - Galveston, TX
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jhuoni
N 29° 18.368 W 094° 47.682
15R E 325698 N 3243239
Once the Legal Arts Building (Law Offices) and an antique store, this building is now a dive shop and luxury suites belonging to the Tremont House across the street.
Waymark Code: WM11VMF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/23/2019
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Historic Photo: Texas Historical Commission [Legal Arts Building], photograph, Date Unknown, University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, crediting Texas Historical Commission.
Historic Photo: Texas Historical Commission [Legal Arts Building], photograph, Date Unknown, University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, crediting Texas Historical Commission.
From the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form.
The Strand Historic District (Period of Significance Amendment), Galveston, Galveston County, Texas (Dated 1/28/2019)
88. Berlocher Buildings 1859
2311-15 Mechanic
Contributing Building
Greek Revival
These two buildings, developed by Berlocher during the late 1850s, present a unified façade along their Mechanic Street frontage. They were interconnected upon their construction. The most extensive ornamentation is found on the Mechanic Street side where the buildings have a combined 12 bays with entrances in each bay of the ground floor and rectangular sash windows in each bay of the upper stories. The entrances have double doors and transoms. The second stories are notable for the 16-over-16 light configuration of the windows. The roof is flat. the building’s original Victorian facade are the round arches supported by iron columns. The original arched brick roof structure also remains in place. Blacksmith Walter Bennison constructed the building to serve as his shop prior to May 1874. The building is non-contributing due to the installation of concrete masonry units in the north facade.