Huaco Club Design Sketch

ID: 982 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Roy E. Lane
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Huaco Club Design Sketch

Unfortunately, many of Lane’s designs have been destroyed. The Huaco Clubhouse, a country club that served as a playground for affluent Wacoans, burned down in the 1920s. Other Lane structures no longer extant include the Waco Opera House, the State House Hotel, the Savoy Hotel, the New Katy Hotel, and the Archenhold Building.

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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…