211 North Ervay, Office building in downtown Dallas, United States
211 North Ervay is an 18-story, 250-foot (76 m) office tower on a slim corner lot 50 feet wide and 200 feet long in downtown Dallas. Its facade pairs continuous glass windows with alternating azure and aquamarine porcelain spandrels. The ground floor is clad in granite and recessed to widen the sidewalk for retail space, and the second floor is covered in mosaics.
211 North Ervay was designed by the Dallas firm Hedrick & Stanley for developer Leo Corrigan, his fourth major downtown office building after the Corrigan Tower, Burt Tower and Adolphus Tower. It opened in 1958 as a general office building on a slim corner lot 50 feet wide and 200 feet long, replacing early commercial structures beside the Palace Theater on Elm Street's Theater Row. Sold in 1971 and 1977, it was remodeled after the second sale; by 1995 it stood vacant, and in 2023 a new owner announced conversion to 238 residential units.
The building sits near Thanks-Giving Square and displays mid-century design with colored porcelain panels and geometric forms that reflect the architectural choices of its era.
The building sits in the City Center District and is easily accessible on foot from other downtown businesses and public spaces. Multiple elevators serve the office floors and provide convenient vertical circulation throughout the structure.
The tower replaced early commercial structures on a slim corner lot 50 feet wide and 200 feet long, beside the former Palace Theater on Elm Street's Theater Row. Preservation Dallas placed it on its inaugural list of Dallas' Most Endangered Historic Places in 2004, after Mayor Laura Miller campaigned to demolish it for a park.
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