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The building's facade was covered with continuous glass windows along with alternating azure and aquamarine porcelain spandrels. The colorful design was a popular way to add color to otherwise bland urban skylines of the mid-twentieth century. The ground floor, containing the main entrance on Ervay,
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was covered in granite and recessed to provide extra sidewalk width for street level retail space; the second floor was covered in mosaics. Opened in 1958 as a general office building, it was popular with insurance companies, law firms, and aviation-related companies.
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campaigned to have the building demolished for a downtown park. In response, Preservation Dallas included the building in its inaugural list of Dallas’ Most
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STEVE BROWN. "A colorful downtown relic may soon be gone - 211 N. Ervay
Building recalls architecture's blue period of '50s, '60s." Dallas Morning News, The (TX) 6 February 2004, SECOND, BUSINESS: 10D. NewsBank. Web. 22 January
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Capital's plans for 1600 Pacific get OK for HUD funding." Dallas Morning News, The (TX) 8 August 2007, FIRST, BUSINESS: 1D. NewsBank. Web. 22 January
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