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The Metro Tower, also known as the NTS Tower, is an office high-rise building located in Lubbock, Texas. Completed in 1955, it is the tallest building in Lubbock at 274 feet (84 meters). [2] The 20-story building was originally known as the Great Plains Life Building after an insurance company that served as its first occupant.
Lubbock Post Office and Federal Building. / 33.58500°N 101.84306°W / 33.58500; -101.84306. The Lubbock Post Office and Federal Building, located at 800 Broadway in downtown Lubbock, Texas, was a post office and federal courthouse from 1932 to 1968. [2]
This list is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lubbock County, Texas. There are four districts and 15 individual properties including one National Historic Landmark in the county. Three properties are also Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
When the historic twister reached downtown Lubbock the night of May 11, 1970, it was a monster with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour, and the Great Plains Life Building stood in its deadly path.
ci.lubbock.tx.us. Lubbock (/ ˈlʌbək / LUB-ək) [ 7 ] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, [ 3 ] the city is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. [ 8 ] The city is in the northwestern part of the state, in the Great ...
May 10, 1996. The Texas Technological College Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The 110-acre (0.45 km 2) district is made up of 27 contributing properties, four non-contributing properties, one contributing structure, one ...
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The J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse, formerly known as the Amarillo U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas built in Amarillo, Texas in 1937. [ 2 ] It reflects Art Deco architecture and Moderne architecture, and was ...