Aquarium -- Fair Park, Dallas TX - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

This small 1930s aquarium is the best kept secret in Dallas. Admission is $6 (compared to $22 at the Dallas World Aquarium in downtown Dallas) and unless a school tour is here or the State Fair is on, it is almost never crushed. Known now as the Children's Aquarium, in the 1930s it was simply The Aquarium, the only one in Dallas.

Blasterz hope the WPA writers got to feed the sharks that have always been here when they visited, and that they enjoyed the calming beauty of the fish tanks and exhibits.

This is one of the civic buildings that was intended to be permanently at Fair Park after the chickenwire and plaster temporary buildings along the Esplanade were dismantled.

From Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State:

"The AQUARIUM (open 8-5 workdays, 2-5 Sun.), facing H. A. Olmsted Drive, is of neoclassic design, similar to the other buildings of this group, with walls of cream limestone combined with hard shell-stone. In the center of one long side is the high-pillared entry. The smooth, severe lines of the two wings are broken by recessed panels, topped by marine carvings in stone. There are 44 plate glass display tanks, containing a fairly representative assortment of fish from Texas and other States."

Book: Texas Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 240 Year Originally Published: 1940

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