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One Big Small Town

If you take pictures from town to town and put everything together, it’s like you’re seeing one big small town.

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Business Section

Stanton, Texas

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Colorado City

Colorado City has potential and possesses a great central business district. It’s on busy Interstate Twenty, far out but not too far away, and surrounded by rolling plains.

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Happy Center

Happy, Texas

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Endure

One must be blind or drunk or in love to live somewhere worse looking than Odessa.

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Happy

A dog barks, tin clanks, and wind whooshes across dormant branches.

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Simple Italianate

Simple Italianate houses fascinate me. The City of Cincinnati describes Italianates (1860 - 1890) as two or three stories high, rectangular in plan, with low-pitched roofs. They are brick with metal, stone, or wood ornamentation. A distinctive feature is a cornice. Their design is thin with tall windows, similar to 19th-century commercial buildings.

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Railroad Street

Navasota, Texas

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Courthouse

Lockhart, Texas

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Texas Theater

San Angelo, Texas

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Railroad Street

Navasota, Texas

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City Limit

Kimbro, Texas

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Street Lamp

Bartlett, Texas

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City Hall

Navasota, Texas

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Courthouse

Llano, Texas

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Standing at the center of it all

Stone clock towers, arched windows, and decorative ornamentation—courthouses center rural counties.

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Main Street

White Deer, Texas

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Oak Street

Pecos, Texas

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Bank

Barstow, Texas

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Navasota

In 2014, at sunset, my parents and I pulled into downtown Navasota for pictures. I walked outside an abandoned hotel, carried my camera, and admired Railroad Street’s timeworn architecture.