James L. Autry House

Significant dates

Edward Albert Palmer Memorial Chapel and Autry House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
The building's exterior in 2014
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Location	6221 and 6265 Main St., Houston, Texas
Coordinates	29°42′57″N 95°23′47″W / 29.71583°N 95.39639°W / 29.71583; -95.39639
Area	less than one acre
Built	1921 (1921)
NRHP Reference #	84000388^[1]
RTHL #	10599
Added to NRHP	October 31, 1984
Designated RTHL	1994

The James L. Autry House is a house located in Houston, Texas, built in 1921 by the Episcopal Church as a community center for Rice University.

A temporary community center was built on the location (at 6265 Main Blvd.) in 1919 by Rev. Harris Masterson, Jr., and replaced in 1921 with a permanent building designed by architects Cram & Ferguson and William Ward Watkin. Due to the lack of public gathering areas at Rice University before the opening of the Fondren Library in 1949, and aided by the cheap food served by the Autry House's cafeteria, it became the university's de facto community center for several decades. A student chapel was built next door in 1927, quickly expanding into a full-fledged church, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, in 1929.^[2]^[3]

As Rice University's campus added a number of community facilities in the 1940s and 1950s that rendered those at Autry House redundant, the house began outreach towards students and employees at the Texas Medical Center, and continued to operate a cafeteria. The house was renovated in the 1970s, and added an art gallery focusing on the work of student artists; in the 1980s, it was opened to a number of community groups, such as the Houston Youth Chorus and the American Cancer Society. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[3]

In 2001, the house was merged administratively and architecturally with Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church: a "bridge building" was built connecting the two buildings, and the church took over operation and maintenance of the house.^[3]

References

↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Stephen Fox (2001). Rice University. Princeton University Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 1-56898-246-1.
1 2 3 Joan Ferry (2008). "Autry House" (PDF). The Cornerstone. Rice Historical Society. 13 (1): 1–7.

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Coordinates: 29°42′58″N 95°23′48″W / 29.7162°N 95.3968°W / 29.7162; -95.3968

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