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Texas first licensed Black architect John Chase left behind a modernist legacy

Texas first licensed Black architect John Chase left behind a modernist legacy
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State Thomas, now part of pricey Uptown, was once 'the heart and soul of Black Dallas'

State Thomas, now part of pricey Uptown, was once ‘the heart and soul of Black Dallas’
During Black History Month, we are featuring the neighborhoods that have helped shape African American life in the city.
Historic homes in the State Thomas Historic District at State Street and Routh Street in Dallas.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Touted by real estate agents as an upscale neighborhood offering old-world charm, it’s difficult to imagine that the State Thomas Historic District, lying just south of West Village in trendy, pricey Uptown, was once a rural Freedman’s Town.
“It was the heart and soul of Black Dallas for a while,” said Marsha Prior, a historic preservation planner for the city of Dallas who has published several research articles on the area. “We blinked and it became Uptown.” ....

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Texas first licensed Black architect John Chase left behind a modernist legacy

Any alert observer passing along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Chestnut Avenue in East Austin inevitably notices two revolutionary sites. One is the David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church with its dramatically escalating roofline, color-block windows and soaring modernist steeple. The other is the radically geometrical and cantilevered residence located a bit to the east of the landmark church at MLK and Maple Avenue known as the Phillips House.
Hidden two lots behind the Phillips House is another multi-level masterpiece, one that for decades was home to the late Irene Thompson, longtime school secretary for the segregated L.C. Anderson High School, who knew just about everybody in East Austin at one time or another. ....

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