Holden, William Curry and Olive Price, House

Casa Grande, at 3109 20th Street in Lubbock, is a one-story adobe house in the Pueblo Revival style, completed in 1931. It has a series of flat roofs with rounded parapets, battered walls, projecting wood vigas, and unfinished round wood columns with carved brackets. William Curry Holden, a Texas Tech history and anthropology professor, and his wife Olive, an artist and librarian, planned the house together after Olive studied Pueblo Indians in a university course. Architecture student James Atcheson prepared the construction drawings after sketching Pueblo dwellings in Santa Fe with them. The couple had adobe bricks made on site, bought lumber from New Mexico, and reinforced the concrete foundation with scavenged steel and Model-T axles. The house became the center of a group of adobe buildings known locally as Adobe Row. It is considered the earliest and best-known Pueblo Revival house in Lubbock and one of few in Texas east of El Paso. It also served as a gathering place for archeology students and visiting scholars.