Denton City Hall

"What is happening is that the physical ugliness around us is producing a generation that doesn't know what ugliness is" (199; pt.3, 1968).

~Ford, O'Neil.

O'Neil Ford on Architecture. Edited by Kathryn E. O'Rourke. University of Texas Press, 2019.

The following are excerpts from letters from O'Neil Ford to staff which can be found in the Denton Municipal Archives | Denton Public Library Records | 2019.010 Box 1, Folder 1-3.

O'Neil Ford to Denton City Manager, Jack Renolds, c1967:

"While I am in a good mood I also want to say I think the - simple - un-pompous - human scale of the city hall will be as different in its category and class as the swimming pool is - and I might as well pay a compliment to Mr. Leonard E. [Ehrler] for the way it is kept up." 

Photographs which appeared in the employee newsletter, The Spotlight. They document the construction and first years of the Denton Municipal Building.

Employees did not move into the building until July of 1968 and work was still going on inside and outside of the building. The landscaping was difficult that year because of the wet weather.