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In 1914, Overbeck was chosen as the president of the Texas State
Association of Architects. His 1917 plans for designing a "humane" county jail in Dallas (known as Tom Green County Jail), included a pipe organ for music; but the state commissioners bailed on raising the funds, and his fundraising
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Texas Moline Plow
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Trinity College building (1906), Dallas, Texas; a precursor of
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church, before being demolished in 1961 for a highway project
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The staff and office of Harry A. Overbeck, Dallas architect (
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Purse and Company Building (1905) at 601 Elm, Dallas, Texas
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Linz Building (1898), Dallas, Texas; demolished in 1963
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Hebrew Union Temple (1906), Greenville, Mississippi
810:"Old courthouse, jail a fading bit of Dallas lore"
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