Higginbotham-Bailey Building
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
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Designed by noted Dallas architectural firm of Lang and Witchell, this building was constructed to house the dry goods manufacturing and distributing business of the Higginbothham - Bailey - Logan Co. (known as Higginbotham - Bailey after 1945). The western section was completed in 1914, and additional sections were constructed in 1917 and 1923. The building features a simplified Renaissance Revival architectural style with geometrically-detailed corner towers. RTHL 1984
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Designed by the prominent Dallas firm of Lang and Witchell, this building rose in stages between 1914 and 1923 to house the dry-goods manufacturing and distributing business of the Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Company. Its simplified Renaissance Revival design, with geometrically detailed corner towers, reflected the confident commercial architecture of early-20th-century Dallas. The firm was known as Higginbotham-Bailey after 1945.
Why it matters
The building embodies the rise of Dallas as a wholesale and distribution hub in the Progressive era, when large mercantile houses helped transform Texas cities into regional commercial powers.
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