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Expected growth was not realized, so company was sold in 1913 to local businessmen who renamed it Malone Light & Ice Company. The Malone company was sold to Texas Utilities Co. on September 7, 1915. On December 21, 1916, the Lubbock city council voted to build a new power plant after failing to negotiate rate concessions from Texas Utilities.
The Carlock Building, 1001 – 1013 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas is an office building designed in the Art Deco style by J. B. Davies & Company of Fort Worth, Texas. It was constructed in 1930 as a cotton exchange for J. D. Doughty and J. B. Kerby. The building reflected the importance of cotton in the region and the growth of peripheral industries.
The first Lubbock County Courthouse was used from 1891 to 1916. The second Lubbock County Courthouse remained open until 1968, though a third courthouse had been built in 1950. Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock. [2]
Lubbock State School opens. [1] Texas Tech University School of Medicine [8] and Lubbock Civic Ballet [1] established. Preston Smith of Lubbock becomes Governor of Texas. [8] 1970 May 11: 1970 Lubbock tornado. [21] Population: 149,101. [17] 1977 - Lubbock Memorial Civic Center built. 1978 - May 19 Bombing at Faith Club Alcoholics Anonymous.
In 2013, Lubbock's Commissioners Court put the building up for sale and Appaloosa Development of Lubbock offered $500,000 but then backed out of the deal. [5] More recently John Thompson (Austin) and Jeff Sagansky (New York) of Elm Tree Partners and John Snyder (Oklahoma) have offered $425,000 for the 28,000 sq ft (2,600 m 2 ) building. [ 6 ]
Wolfforth was established in 1916 and developed as a railroad town when the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway built through the area. [5] The Wolfforth brothers, George ("Tildy") and Eastin, had settled in the area. George was a rancher, and Eastin was a Lubbock County Sheriff circa 1900. [6]
KLBK-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to ABC affiliate KAMC (channel 28) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on University Avenue in south Lubbock, where ...
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 was its first occupant.