{"nrhp_refnum":"91002023","name":"Amarillo College Administration Building and Gymnasium","other_names":["Ordway Hall and Russell Gymnasium"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2201 S. Washington St. and 2221 S. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amarillo","county":"Potter County","state":"TX","lat":35.18872883350005,"lon":-101.84814682443373,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two Art Deco brick buildings, the Administration Building (1937) and the Gymnasium (1939), at 2201 and 2221 S. Washington St. in Amarillo, Texas. They are the original complex of the Amarillo College campus and were designed by Guy Anton Carlander.","why_significant":"The buildings were the first permanent campus of Amarillo College, built with Public Works Administration grants. They qualify under Criterion A for education, as the first permanent local institution of higher learning in Amarillo. They qualify under Criterion C as among the best Art Deco examples in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. Later additions in the 1960s used similar scale and materials, so the complex kept its integrity.","narrative":"Amarillo College's first permanent campus began with two Art Deco buildings on Washington Street: an Administration Building completed in 1937 and a Gymnasium finished in 1939. Architect Guy Anton Carlander designed both, and contractor W. Frank Litle built them with Public Works Administration funding. The L-plan Administration Building is buff brick with cast stone trim, a jagged silhouette, chevron windows, zigzag muntins, a four-story tower and terra cotta gnome panels. Inside are terrazzo floors, cast stone stair balustrades and an auditorium. The Gymnasium is a smaller brick building with chevron-capped pilasters and terra cotta panels of athletes. Additions in 1964-65 and 1967 used similar scale and materials, leaving the original character largely intact. The complex represents the first permanent local institution of higher learning in Amarillo, which grew from the state's first junior college taxing district in 1929. It is also regarded as the most intact surviving example of Carlander's Art Deco work in the Panhandle.","period_of_significance":"1936-1939","architect_builder":"Carlander, Guy Anton (architect); W. Frank Litle (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement/Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used for education as part of the Amarillo College campus; both buildings were altered in the mid-1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.41097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/9732/40973204/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/91002023.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91002023/caf61b3c04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91002023/caf61b3c04-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Ammodramus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordway_Hall,_Amarillo_College,_N_projection_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammodramus</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordway_Hall,_Amarillo_College,_N_projection_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973204","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999530"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/potter-county/amarillo-college-administration-building-and-gymnasium-91002023/"}