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[Wilson Building Construction, Intersection of North Ervay and Elm Street]

Title: [Wilson Building Construction, Intersection of North Ervay and Elm Street]

Creator: Hudson

Date: 1902

Series: Series 3: Photographs; Series 3, Subseries 5, Locations; Series 3, Subseries 5a, Dallas city views

Part of: George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection

Place: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Description: Construction of the Wilson Building at the intersection of Ervay and Elm Street. Designed by the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet & Staats, the Wilson Building is a French Renaissance / Second Empire style building, modeled after the Paris Grand Opera House. The building would eventually open in 1904, with the Titche-Goettinger department store occupying the basement and first two floors of the building. Source: Paula Bosse, The Wilson Building Under Construction - 1902, Flashback: Dallas, January 29, 2015, http://flashbackdallas.com/2015/01/29/wilson-bldg-under-construction-1902/ Visible, just beyond the construction site, are the offices of noted surgeon, Dr. Henry K. Leake. Dr. Leake was president of the Texas State Medical Association, and editor of the journal the Texas Medical Record. Source: Ronald Coy Jones, History of the Department of Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center: Surgery in Dallas, 1875-1900, Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, April 2004, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200650/

Physical Description: 1 photograph: gelatin silver; 26.7 x 34.2 cm on 30 x 35.6 cm mount

File: a2014_0020_3_5_a_0008_r_construction_opt.jpg

Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.

For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gcd/id/66/

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