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Picture of the fountain adjacent to City Hall in Civic Center Park. The pond is edged in brick. Several turtles can be seen bathing in the sun. A large metal sculpture abuts the north edge of the pond. A tiered metal fountain is near the west end. The pond is landscaped with native grasses and vines. A weeping willow tree is in the background, as well as the Emily Fowler Library.

Photo of people participating in a game at the Civic Center Park in 1994. A woman hands a boy wearing an "Ice Cube" t-shirt a plastic ring for a ring-toss game.

Photo of the Civic Center Pool taken in 1983 from the southwest corner of the pool. There are more than a dozen children in the water. A diving board is on the left side. The dressing room is in the background. A wooden fence surrounds the property.

Photo of the people sitting in lawn chairs and blankets while at the Denton Jazz Festival in 1989. In the foreground is a couple with a young girl. They have a picnic basket and cooler nearby.

Photograph of various pieces of playground equipment at the Civic Center Park taken in 1976. There is a rocket ship slide, a merry-go-round, teeter-totters, and swingset.

Ford, Powell, and Carson Architects' proposed layout for the Civic Center Municipal Complex in 1997. It focuses on the buildings, landscaping, and bridges crossing the creek system in several different locations.

This is a black-and-white photograph taken by C. E. Carruth from the City Park. The photographer was standing on the opposite side of a pond surrounded by tall grass. Trees dot the landscape. The TWU administration building is in the background.

Ford Crawford stands on the covered front porch of his grocery store. The building is a two-story wooden structure. Two young boys stand near him. A picket fence surrounds the building. There are numerous advertisements on the fence and walls. <br /> <br /> Crawford's store was located in Quakertown, an African American community in Denton, Texas.

Members of the Hill family: Ida Spikes, Will Hill, and Ada Hill stand in front of a home in Quakertown, Denton, Texas. The photo appears to have been taken in winter because all three are wearing hats and coats, and the trees are bare. The man is holding a book in his right hand.

Joseph and Alice Skinner stand on a sidewalk on Bell Avenue in the Quakertown Community in Denton, Texas. In the background is the administration building for the College of Industrial Arts (now TWU). There is a picket fence on the right.

This is a map of the newly proposed City Park in Denton, Texas. The map was drawn by C. F. Ballard; if you enlarge the image, you can see that it is printed on fabric. The engineer was H. T. Brewster. <br /> There are two creeks, named Cottonwood and Pecan, which flow across the park. There are spots for a tennis court, the Women's Club building, a play field, an "island", a municipal bathing pool with changing rooms, a children's playground, and a wading pool.

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This map is "Sheet 16" of the 1921 Denton Sanborn Map. The map is nine blocks wide by 4 blocks long. It is bordered by the College of Industrial Arts (now TWU) to the north and the city to the south. The streets are labeled. The homes and buildings are labeled with names or street numbers. The map scale is 100 ft. to an inch.

Photograph of the front of the Davis Building on North Elm Street. It was taken while the sun was setting. The businesses inside were closed.<br /> <br /> The building was designed by the Mount Miller Architects for Joe Alvord Florist in 1965. It now houses three different shops.
Photos of the Davis Office Building. It was designed by the Mount-Miller Architects in 1965. The structure is bordered by North Elm Street and Congress Street.

From the Denton Record-Chronicle:

The building was designed for Bruce Davis and…

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This aerial photo of North Lakes Park was taken in 2012 for the City to illustrate where floodwaters would run if either of the dams at North Lakes were to fail.

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Voertman's on Oakland Street
Photograph by Alec Williams of Voertman's College Store on Oakland Street taken around 1977-78.

Other photos were taken in 2023 by Leslie Couture of the Special Collections Department for the Denton Public Library.

This building was designed…

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