The February 8, 1919 El Paso Herald has given us primary documentation of a rare Sun City Charles Barglebaugh residential design. The home, a cleanly designed Craftsman "Prairie Box" Foursquare, sits on the southwest corner of Hastings and Pennsylvania in the Austin Terrace area. Barglebaugh spent most of his career in the Dallas, Texas area, and was known for exceptional creativity in his designs. Before Dallas, he worked in Chicago with the Maestro Frank Lloyd Wright, and thus is the closest El Paso tie to Wright other than Daniel Burnham, a former member of the Chicago Architectural Sketch Club. Burnham, however, the designer of El Paso's 1906 Union Depot, was a "One Hit Wonder" in ELP; while Barglebaugh designed a number of local buildings, including the YWCA, the El Paso Country Club, and most famously the First Mortgage Tower.
For a more in-depth discussion on the work of Charles Erwin Barglebaugh, see the Trost Society's November, 2020 article on the First Mortgage at https://www.facebook.com/TrostSociety/posts/3376573239127385.
The Harvey Residence was erected in 1919, a variegated red-brick Craftsman Foursquare design on a concrete foundation. Similar in many ways to the snowstorm of Trost & Trost foursquares erected in town at the time, it seems to have cleaner amd more parallel features than a Trost fare. For example, many H.C. Trost Prairie Boxes have conical columns supporting their full porches, whereas this home's supports are parallel. Additionally, the slanted roof on Barglebaugh's Harvey residence sets it apart, too - most porch roofs from this style are flat.
It's very much a surprise, at least to me (Mark Stone), to discover a local residential design from C.E. Barglebaugh. Hopefully there are more. This guy was a pretty good architect!
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Text and research provided to Sketchclub.net by Mark Stone, citing period newspaper articles accessed at newspapers.com, and El Paso City Directory entries accessed through the UNT Digital Archives at https://texashistory.unt.edu/
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