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Central Ability & Light’s capital appointment architecture at Chaparral and Laguna (renamed Sartain), apparent in a photo by “Doc” McGregor taken on Sept. 4, 1940 (top). The architecture was continued and remodeled, as apparent in a photo by Sammy Gold taken on Aug. 9, 1957 (bottom). Afterwards CPL confused to new address on Carancahua, the burghal purchased the architecture in 1988 to abode the badge administration and borough courts.(Photo: Compiled by Murphy Givens)
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house plans for you - plans, image, design and about house | Boarding House Floor Plan DesignThe badge administration and borough cloister architecture on Chaparral served as the capital address of Central Ability & Light for bisected a century. The ice abode and ability bulb were abaft it, on Water Street. Besides affairs electricity, CPL in its aboriginal years delivered ice aperture to aperture and ran the streetcar line.
The electric ability business started actuality in 1890 with the Corpus Christi Electric Aggregation bulb in a corrugated tin architecture on Water Street. It went broke and in 1898 was awash to E.A. Born and Royall Givens, who purchased a 20-ton ice bulb and renamed it the Corpus Christi Electric and Ice Company. Electricity was provided alone at night.
A aggressive close — the Peoples Light Aggregation — was formed in 1907 and promised to accommodate electricity full-time with a new 125-horsepower gas engine.
Daniel Hewitt started an electric streetcar operation in Corpus Christi in 1910. Streetcars and ice accomplishment both bare bargain ability to operate, so there was a affiliation of interests with ability companies. Hewitt purchased ability from the Peoples Light Company. He ran four cars and answerable a five-cent fare. Afterwards a year he awash to the Heinley brothers of Denver, who congenital their own ability plant, added three cars and still answerable bristles cents a fare.
A Philadelphia bunch purchased the streetcar band and electric arrangement in 1914 to comprise the Corpus Christi Railway and Light Co. The streetcars absent money until the Army accustomed Affected Scurry in 1916. With bags of soldiers at the camp, the trolley business entered its aureate age, which lasted until Scurry was closed, afterwards the end of World War I, and the storm of Sept. 14, 1919, ashore the ability bulb and around destroyed the streetcar system.
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Gallery of Bioclimatic and Biophilic Boarding House / Andyrahman ... | Boarding House Floor Plan DesignPower was adequate a anniversary afterwards the storm, but the streetcars sat abandoned for two months and while they were out a Jitney account with automobiles ran anchored routes. The streetcar arrangement went broke and was purchased in 1921 by Texas Central Power, which was formed in 1916 by Ralph Morrison and Warner McCall, who bought baby electric companies beyond South Texas.
A blaze destroyed the ability bulb on Water Street on Nov. 20, 1921, abrogation the burghal dark. Aback acting account was restored, the damaged bulb couldn’t accommodated aiguille appeal so a area of the burghal was cut off anniversary night.
The electric aggregation was reorganized as Gulf Coast Ability Company, a new beef breeding bulb was installed and the streetcar arrangement was restructured as the Nueces Railway Company. In 1925, it was awash to the Middle West Utilities. The operating name in South Texas was Central Ability and Light. The ability bulb and ice bulb were remodeled; a agile of ice commitment trucks operated from the plant.
CPL shut bottomward the streetcar band on Jan. 31, 1931, and instituted a bus account with routes to North Beach, Hillcrest and Del Mar until 1933. CPL awash the bus band to Edwin and Bob Ekstrom, who founded Greyhound. The bus arrangement was still charging a five-cent fare.
In 1932, a two-story brick architecture was complete at Chaparral and Laguna (now Sartain) to abode CPL’s capital offices. A third adventure was added in 1937 and two floors congenital on in 1954. The architecture was adapted in 1957 with one of those airedale avant-garde facades. The old ability bulb and ice abode were collapsed in the 1960s.
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private room layout | design ideas | Pinterest | Boarding school ... | Boarding House Floor Plan DesignIn 1987, afore it alloyed with American Electric Ability in 2000, Central Ability & Light confused to a 16-story belfry on Carancahua. In 1988, the burghal purchased the five-story CPL architecture to abode the badge administration and borough courtrooms. The burghal additionally concluded up with the bus system, which acquired into the RTA.
Jail history
Nueces Canton was three years old on Feb. 21, 1849, aback canton commissioners discussed the charge for a jail. Aback the sheriff fabricated an arrest, he put the captive in a boarding house, at canton expense. A appropriate affair of the commissioners’ cloister was captivated to altercate whether the canton could allow to body a jail. The affair was postponed.
The afterward year the canton ordered a courthouse and bastille built. The courthouse was accomplished in 1857 at a amount of $4,000. There was not abundant money larboard to body the jail. The sheriff was aback to abode prisoners in boarding houses.
The abridgement of a bastille became a analytical affair in 1860. A man alleged John Warren got drunk, started a action in a saloon, and was taken by Sheriff Mat Nolan to beddy-bye it off at his boarding house. He alternate to the saloon, stabbed the bartender, and again attempt and dead the sheriff’s brother, Tom Nolan, aback he approved to arrest him. Afterwards Tom Nolan’s afterlife the Ranchero bi-weekly wrote about the county’s charge for a bastille and a bastille band affair was anesthetized on Nov. 6, 1860, but the affairs were scrapped aback the Civil War began.
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BOARDING HOUSE PLANS | House Affair | Boarding House Floor Plan DesignThe canton still had no bastille afterwards the war. Commissioners bought an adamant cage and installed it on the top attic of the 1854 courthouse. They alleged it a “jail.” Afterwards it was installed, three prisoners best the lock on the adamant cage and escaped.
The canton congenital a new courthouse in 1875, alleged the Hollub Courthouse afterwards the builder. The old 1854 courthouse abutting aperture was acclimated for a board allowance and a jail. Two killers bedevilled of a belled annihilation at the Morton abundance on Baffin Bay were hanged from a arch congenital out from the arcade of the old courthouse.
After four decades of talking about a charge for a jail, they assuredly boxlike their amateur and congenital the county’s aboriginal absolute bastille on Mesquite Street abreast the courthouse in 1892. It had its own gallows at the rear of the building. Aback the canton outgrew the 1875 Hollub courthouse, it congenital a six-story anatomy in 1913. The bastille accessories on the fourth and fifth floors had bedlam beef for a aberration administration and hot boxes to abuse assertive prisoners. The distinctively congenital gallows on the fifth attic were never used. The accompaniment took over the assignment of administering executions and the hangman’s allurement aperture was anchored shut.
Caller-Times columnist Murphy Givens, June 2014. (Photo: Contributed photo)
Murphy Givens is the retired Viewpoints Editor of the Caller-Times. Email him at givens.murphy@gmail.com.
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