Boyhood

ID: 979 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Boyhood

Lane was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1884. This image suggests that Lane’s family was sufficiently wealthy to be able to afford ornate dress clothes and individual photographic portraits.

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By Terri Jo Ryan
One of the “go-to” guys for erecting temples to prosperity in Waco during the ragtime era (1900-18), was Roy Ellsworth Lane, who helped establish some of the earliest architectural professional organizations in Texas. Though his structures would…