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Alden B. Dow Office Museum, Lake Jackson, TX

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Alden B. Dow Office Museum

A mid-century modern office in downtown Lake Jackson, where architect Alden B. Dow designed the town.

101 S. Parking Place, Lake Jackson, TX 77566 · Lake Jackson, TX

About Alden B. Dow Office Museum

Run by the Lake Jackson Historical Association, this downtown museum lets visitors see the mid-century modern office where Alden B. Dow worked while planning Lake Jackson. The building dates to 1943, once served as the town's original City Hall, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its distinctive window shape became a civic icon and now appears in the museum's logo. Nearby, the Carriage Square sculpture, installed in 2018, draws on a mobile from one of Dow's early 1940s office photographs.

  • #mid-century modern
  • #architecture
  • #local history
  • #National Register of Historic Places
  • #downtown Lake Jackson

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