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Jim Bell Texas Architecture Photograph Collection
Plaza Square in Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of several storefronts on the east side of Plaza Square in downtown Paris, Texas, including a 1917 building with a white stucco front housing "Paris Optical."
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84861/
Plaza Square in Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of buildings on the west side of Plaza Square in downtown Paris, Texas including signs that mark the highways.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84831/
Plaza Square Storefronts in Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of the south end of the west side of Plaza Square in downtown Paris, Texas.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84837/
Plaza Square Stores
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of the west side of the Plaza Square in downtown Paris, Texas showing the storefronts along the street. Restored street lights are visible, which have been installed throughout downtown Paris.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84842/
R. M. Clemment Building in Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of the 1916 R. M. Clemment building on Plaza Square in downtown Paris, Texas. The building is on the northeast corner of Plaza Square, one block south of the courthouse. The current occupant is "Rosie's Antiques".
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84873/
Recent Fire Damage in Downtown Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of a fire-damaged, brick building in the 200 block of the west side of South Main Street, in downtown Paris, Texas.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
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Recent Fire Damage in Downtown Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of fire damage to a building in the 200 block of 1st Southwest Street in downtown Paris, Texas. In the image, a charred wood post is anchored to a brick wall with bolts.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84989/
Recent Fire in Downtown Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of recent fire damage to a building on the west side of the 200 block of South Main Street, in downtown Paris, Texas.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84950/
Recent Fire in Downtown Paris, Texas
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of fire damage to a building on the west side of the 200 block of South Main Street, in downtown Paris, Texas. In the foreground, there is a stack of bricks salvaged from the fire that were cleaned and piled.
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84954/
SHSC Historical Marker Central National Road 1844
Date: November 13, 2008
Creator: Bell, Jim
Description: Photograph of an SHSC (State Historical Survey Committee) marker commemorating the Central National Road started by the Republic of Texas in 1844. The road beagan at the mouth of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, passed through Milam County and downtown Paris, Texas, where this marker is placed at Union Station west of the downtown area. Text of the marker reads: "Central National Road of the Republic of Texas. Designed as a military highway, intended to make linkage with United States military road built to the north of the Red River in the 1820's. This was part of the national effort of Republic of Texas to open a good road system. Congress in 1839 passed a bill for a road east from Washington-on-the-Brazos to the Sabine River; 1841 legislation called for a road from the Nueces to the Red River and another from Austin to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Central National Road was created in 1844, to reach from mouth of the Elm Fork on the Trinity to Kiomatia Crossing on the Red. It went down a main street in Paris, which was founded in 1844; near its south end was the 1841 John Neely Bryan home, around ...
Contributing Partner: Private Collection of Jim Bell
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