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John S. Chase–The Chase Residence

• Author(s): David Heymann, Stephen Fox

• Categories: Architecture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2020-11-10
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• Publisher: University of Texas Press

The low-slung brick home that architect John Saunders Chase completed for his own family in 1959 was Houston’s first modernist house with a true interior courtyard, a form with which other progressive architects were only starting to experiment. It was equally radical that he built it at all. When Chase graduated from The University of Texas School of Architecture in 1952—the first African American to do so—no Houston architecture firm would hire him. Chase petitioned the state for special permission to take the licensing exam, becoming the first African American registered as an architect in Texas. By 1959, he ran his own thriving firm and had established a position of remarkable infl...

Official Register of the United States

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1897
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report - United Church Board for World Ministries

• Author(s): United Church Board for World Ministries

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1868
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• Publisher: Unknown

Vols. for 1970- include "Calendar of prayer" with directory of missionaries (formerly called pt. 3)

The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California

• Author(s): California. Legislature. Senate

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1915
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings ...

• Author(s): Erie County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1889
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• Publisher: Unknown

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