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James Riely Gordon

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sandstone, used in trimming the building, and 14 cars of iron". The pyramidal mass is softened by decorations such as carved faces of people and animals (apparently by the accomplished artisan Harry Herley), as well as multicolored stones and bricks, and metal eagles perched on spirelets above the roof.
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In 1882, Gordon apprenticed to W.K. Dobson of San Antonio. Soon after, Gordon went to work for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the agency responsible for the design of federal court buildings, customs houses, post offices, etc. In 1887, he returned to San Antonio to supervise
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1895), just across the street from the back of the bank, at 102 E. Live Oak Street and the corner of S. Austin St. Today, the 19-room mansion is owned the H.A. Daniels family of Seguin, whose family purchased the home from Mrs. Eugenie (Claudia) Nolte around 1940. Photographs and Gordon's records of
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with a square central atrium and stairwell, and quarter-circular entrance porches in each corner. This Signature Plan of his captured the passing breeze, which lifted thru the central atrium like a chimney, providing a natural ventilation system. Putting the entrances in the corners also shortened
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One surviving Gordon house, at 425 King William St. in San Antonio's heavily German-American King William District, was built for George Kalteyer (1892–1893). The house is known as "The Kalteyer House" and has been a home to many different families over the years. Gordon designed a cottage in 1890
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in Waxahachie, which has become the icon of the town-square, late Victorian Era genre. The massive building tapers to 134 feet at the peak of the central clock tower, atop a vast roof punctuated by dormers. It took two million bricks, "160 carloads of Texas granite, 100 carloads of Pecos red
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After he won commissions for courthouses in Hazelhurst (Copiah County) and Woodville (Wilkenson County) in Mississippi, political shenanigans cheated Gordon out of a commission for that state's new capitol. Later, Gordon fought hard to win the contract for a new city hall in
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for August Thiele, Jr., a San Antonio business and civic leader. It has been listed since 1983 on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Thiele House and Thiele Cottage. The cottage itself was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984. The
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While apartment houses and commercial buildings dominated Gordon's practice in New York City, he did see more courthouse work, in Somerville and Hackensack, New Jersey, Oakland, Maryland, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, and Wampsville and Cortland, New York.
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is the only structure in Hopkins County on the National Register of Historic Places. It was added in 1977. The 1895 structure was designed by Gordon in the Romanesque Revival style at a cost of $ 75,000. It was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in
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branch) facing the town square (designed 1890, finished 1896). It is part of the National Register listing of Seguin's commercial district. Its façade has been greatly altered over the years. For Eugene Nolte, Gordon also designed a house with
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at 309 E. Commerce St. for the carriage trade of August Frederick Staacke in 1894. The building became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984. The Staacke building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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used Gordon's trademark plan with corner doors and a ventilating atrium-like lobby. Using drawings prepared in 1907, in neoclassical Renaissance Revival style, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
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and Renaissance Revival styles, and erected in 1900 of marble, granite, and other stone. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The courthouse was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in
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Among Gordon's nonpublic work in Texas is the 1890 Protestant Home for Destitute Children at 802 Kentucky Ave in San Antonio. The building was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1991. The
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Gordon served 13 years as the president of the New York Society of Architects before being named its honorary president. He also served on a number of important city boards and official committees.
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construction of that city's U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (replaced in 1937). Gordon was essentially self-educated in his art, learning on his jobs, but never attending a school of architecture.
2176:"James R. Gordon, Architect, Dead. Designer of Public Buildings All Over the Country Succumbs in Pelham Heights. Vigorous Defender of City Park System. Long a Leader of His Professional Society" 678:, featured on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998. The showplace home that J. Riely Gordon designed for real estate developer Jay E. Adams stands at 505 Belknap today. 573:, which Gordon designed at 315 E. Commerce, received the Recorded Texas Historic Landmark designation in 1984. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places the same year. 482:
was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. This Romanesque Revival building was constructed of red brick in 1899 and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1968.
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this house, including two photographs of its interiors, are housed at the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin
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He died of a stroke on March 16, 1937. His funeral featured a tribute by the president of the New York Society of Architects, and was attended by some 50 other architects.
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Gordon designed a number of substantial buildings in Manhattan, but almost all of them have since been replaced by new structures. One venerable survivor from 1910, in the
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until 1902 and then in New York City, where he gained national recognition. J. Riely Gordon is best known for his landmark county courthouses, in particular those in
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J. Riely Gordon's specialty while practicing in Texas was public buildings, though he also designed houses and commercial structures. He became a master of the
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Despite many years of neglect by its owners, Walnut Ridge remains a structurally sound landmark at the southern entrance to downtown Gonzales, Texas.
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More photographs of this house are also available at the Institute of Texan Cultures archives housed among the Eugene Nolte papers at the
753:-story Romanesque Revival courthouse, from 1898 and recently restored, faces the square in New Braunfels, between San Antonio and Austin. 840:
Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, south of Dallas, is one of the most impressive and most beloved architectural landmarks in Texas.
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The R.S. Dilworth House at 903 St. Lawrence St., Gonzales, Texas, was built in 1911 using St. Louis pressed brick and eight massive
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in downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States, an exuberant example of Romanesque Revival, built in 1892, launched Gordon's career.
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In 1891, Gordon and his then-partner, D.E. Laub, won first prize of $ 1,000 in a country-wide competition to design the new
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McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, shows Gordon's mastery of the Beaux-Arts style. Added to National Register in 1978.
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Lee County Courthouse in Giddings, near Austin, built in 1899, was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
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was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1993.
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The significance of his role in the New York area may be inferred from the fact that his obituary in the
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The Fayette County Courthouse in La Grange, between Houston and Austin, was finished in 1891. The
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the hallways, saving space. He built 11 courthouses of this type in Texas between 1891 and 1900.
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Gordon's most successful plan—apparently his own unique design, without precedent—was that of a
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James Riely Gordon's papers are now held in the Alexander Architectural Archive of the
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Wise County Courthouse in Decatur. The Romanesque Revival structure was added to the
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was completed in 1902 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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James Riely Gordon also designed a number of notable houses for wealthy clients in
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The 1895 J.B. Kennard House by J. Riely Gordon, is a National Register property.
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Using his design for the Mississippi capitol, Gordon won the commission for the
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In 1889, Gordon married Mary Lamar Sprigg. The couple had one daughter.
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in Boston in 1877. Returning to the roots of the style in the medieval
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building uses four types of native Texas stone to detail the exterior.
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became the first scholarly study of Gordon's career and major works.
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Gribou, Julius; Hanley, Robert; Robey, Thomas (2007).
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is the location of Gordon's 1896 Romanesque Revival
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J. Riely Gordon

Winchester, Virginia
Pelham, New York
Architect
San Antonio
Texas
Winchester, Virginia
International and Great Northern Railroad
Bexar County Courthouse
Romanesque Revival
Henry Hobson Richardson
Trinity Church
Auvergne
France
Decatur
Waxahachie
Greek cross
Ellis County Courthouse
Vicksburg
Beaux-Arts
Arizona Territorial Capitol
Phoenix
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago
Dallas
Gramercy Park
36 Gramercy Park East
Cass Gilbert
Woolworth Building

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