Mineral springs were a popular aspect of American culture prior to World War II.
In conjunction with the rest of the United States, Texas offered visitors
numerous locations for people to “take the waters.” Unfortunately, for various
reasons, the springs fell out of favor and the buildings associated with them were
largely abandoned.
I briefly discuss the history of the springs through the ages and
then move onto a discussion of the different styles of architecture associated with
the springs in the United States and how these styles differed in Texas.
Due to the loss of architecture associated with the mineral springs in Texas, this
paper uses Heath, Oc, and Tiesdell’s five forms of obsolescence to analyze the
reasons for failures in adaptive reuse, discusses the successes, and presents some
extant buildings where futures are undetermined.
In order to answer these questions, I gathered a collection of case studies,
focusing on locations in Texas, but including several from the United States and
Europe. I analyzed these case studies and gathered information from the result of
the studies to deduce why the forms of obsolescence could not be overcome, and
how some sites differed and successfully surmounted these difficulties. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22539 |
| Date | 04 December 2013 |
| Creators | Mace, Shonda Ranee |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works., Restricted |
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