| Marker Number |
16911 |
| Atlas Number |
5507016911 |
| Marker Title |
Fisk Medical Arts & Professional Building |
| Index Entry |
Fisk Medical Arts & Professional Building |
| Address |
724 S. Polk St. |
| City |
Amarillo |
| County |
Potter |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
241726 |
| UTM Northing |
3899353 |
| Subject Codes |
commercial buildings; buildings |
| Marker Year |
2011 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
Yes |
| Marker Location |
Corner of West Eighth Avenue and South Polk Street |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
RTHL Medallion and Plate |
| Marker Text |
In 1926, Charles A. Fisk, president of the Amarillo Bank and Trust, and other investors commissioned this skyscraper designed by Amarillo architect Guy A. Carlander and built by the Gilsonite Contracting Co. of Dallas. The building formally opened in Dec. 1928, when an Amarillo Daily News article reported its cost as “dangerously close” to one million dollars. Fisk’s bank occupied the ground floor, with a mix of professional and retail tenants above. The eleven-story steel-reinforced concrete frame building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim and exhibits gothic revival style detailing. |
