{{Short description|Office building in Dallas, Texas, United States}} {{Infobox building | name = Dal-Tex Building | native_name = | native_name_lang = | former_names = Kingman Texas Implements Company Building, John Deere Plow Company Building | alternate_names = Dallas Textile Building | status = Complete | image = Dealey_Plaza_2003.jpg | image_alt = | image_size = | caption = View from southwest, with the former Texas School Book Depository at left, the Dal-Tex Building, center, and the Dallas County Records Annex, right (2003) | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_alt = | map_caption = | altitude = | building_type = Brick | architectural_style = [[Sullivanesque]] | structural_system = | cost = | ren_cost = | client = | owner = | current_tenants = | landlord = | location = | address = 501 Elm St.,<br />[[Dallas, Texas]] | location_country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|32|46|43|N|96|48|30|W|display=inline,title}} | groundbreaking_date = | construction_start_date = | completion_date = {{Start date and age|1902}} | opened_date = | inauguration_date = | renovation_date = | demolished_date = | destruction_date = | height = | architectural = | tip = | antenna_spire = | roof = | top_floor = | observatory = | other_dimensions = | floor_count = 7 | floor_area = | seating_type = | seating_capacity = | elevator_count = | main_contractor = | architect = | architecture_firm = [[Herbert M. Greene|Hubbell and Greene]] | structural_engineer = | services_engineer = | civil_engineer = | other_designers = | quantity_surveyor = | awards = | designations = | ren_architect = | ren_firm = | ren_str_engineer = | ren_serv_engineer = | ren_civ_engineer = | ren_oth_designers = | ren_qty_surveyor = | ren_awards = | parking = | url = | references = <ref name="nrhpinv2">{{Cite journal|url={{NHLS url|id=93001607}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Dealey Plaza Historic District|date=August 1991 |format=PDF |author=Dallas County Historical Foundation |author-link=Dallas County Historical Foundation |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=June 7, 2012 }} and {{NHLS url|id=93001607|title=''Accompanying photos and maps, various dates''|photos=y}} {{small|(3.14 MB)}}</ref><ref name="UTL1">{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00002/aaa-00002.html |title=Greene LaRoche and Dahl: An Inventory of their Collection, 1902-1953 |work=Alexander Architectural Archive |publisher=University of Texas Libraries |location=Austin, Texas |access-date=June 7, 2012}}</ref> | embedded = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Texas School Book Depository | nocat = yes | nrhp_type = cp | partof = [[West End Historic District (Dallas)|West End Historic District]] | partof_refnum = 78002918<ref name="nris"/> | designated_nrhp_type = November 14, 1978 | nrhp_type2 = nhldcp | partof2 = Dealey Plaza Historic District | partof2_refnum = 93001607<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref> | designated_nrhp_type2 = October 12, 1993 | designated_other1_name = [[List of Dallas Landmarks|Dallas Landmark]] Historic District<br />[[Contributing Property]] | designated_other1_abbr = DLMKHD | designated_other1_color = #F5DEB3 | designated_other1_date = October 6, 1975<ref name="WestEnd">{{cite web|title=West End Historic District|url=http://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Documents/West%20End%20Report.pdf|author=Staff|date=August 4, 2016|page=3|publisher=Department of Urban Planning, City of Dallas|access-date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> | designated_other1_number = [http://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopment/historicpreservation/Pages/landmark_districts.aspx H/2] ([[West End Historic District (Dallas)|West End HD]]) | designated_other1_num_position = bottom }} }}
The '''Dal-Tex Building''' is a seven-story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the [[West End Historic District (Dallas, Texas)|West End Historic District]] of [[downtown Dallas]], Texas, United States. The building is on the northeast corner of Elm and North Houston streets, across the street from the [[Texas School Book Depository]] in [[Dealey Plaza]], the scene of the [[assassination of President John F. Kennedy|assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy]] on November 22, 1963. The Dal-Tex Building, sometimes called the '''Dallas-Textiles Building''', the '''Dal-Tex Market Building''', or the '''Dal-Tex Mart Building''', was a center of the textile business in Dallas.
Designed by architects James P. Hubbell and [[Herbert Miller Greene]] as a [[warehouse]] for the Kingman Texas Implement Company, the building has been described as one of the "earliest [[Sullivanesque]] designs in Texas".<ref name="UTL1"/> The building has also been reported to show the [[Prairie School]]'s influence on Greene.<ref name="UTL2">{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/dallas.html |title=Architectural Legacy: Dallas |work=The Architectural Legacy of Herbert Miller Greene |publisher=University of Texas Libraries |location=Austin, Texas |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418151818/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/dallas.html |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Assassination of Kennedy== [[Abraham Zapruder]], who shot the famous [[Zapruder film]], had his offices on the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building.<ref name="The Citizen; November 22, 1983">{{cite news |last=Bloom |first=John |date=November 22, 1983 |title=Film a compact, chilling, suspense story |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QaQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5923%2C640119 |newspaper=The Citizen |location=Ottawa |page=12 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref>
===Conspiracy theories=== Several [[John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories|conspiracy theories in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy]] allege that some of the shots fired at the President's motorcade originated from the Dal-Tex Building.<ref name="Esquire 1967">{{cite journal |date=May 1967 |title=A Second Primer of Assassination Theories |journal=Esquire |pages=104 ff |url=http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theories/Second_Primer/Second_primer.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007101304/http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theories/Second_Primer/Second_primer.html |archive-date=2011-10-07 }}</ref> In September 1966, ''[[Triumph (magazine)|Triumph]]''{{'s}} Lawrence R. Brown published an article stating that the bullet trajectories were traced back to a second-floor window in the Dal-Tex Building.<ref name="The Sumter Daily Item; November 30, 1966">{{cite news |last=Chamberlain |first=John |author-link=John Chamberlain (journalist) |date=November 30, 1966 |title=Rumors Rife In JFK Case |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IpYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9qkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=855%2C5683008 |newspaper=The Sumter Daily Item |location=Sumter, South Carolina |page=8-A |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref> [[Jim Garrison]] told ''[[Playboy]]'' in September 1967 that the building was "in all probability" one of four locations in which snipers fired at Kennedy.<ref name="The Miami News; September 11, 1967">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Garrison Claims 'Guerilla Team Of 7' Killed JFK |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PTo0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=846%2C1628241 |newspaper=The Miami News |location=Miami, Florida |page=2A |date=September 11, 1967 |access-date=April 11, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Garrison later claimed that there were four assassination teams, each consisting of a rifleman and a lookout, including one on the seventh floor of the building.<ref name="The Milwaukee Journal; July 12, 1968">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Garrison Claims Foreign Help |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PbUdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6026%2C633176 |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |page=3 |date=July 12, 1968 |access-date=April 11, 2015 |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508072556/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PbUdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6026,633176 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 1967, [[Josiah Thompson]] stated that his study allowed him to conclude that there were four shots from three different firing positions during the assassination. Thompson also concluded that the Dal-Tex Building was located in a zone also including the Dallas County Records Building and parts of the Dallas Criminal Courts Building that he determined could have been the location for the source of the second shot.<ref name="The Bryan Times; November 17, 1967">{{cite news |last=Winship |first=Frederick M. |date=November 17, 1967 |title=Study Of Assassination Claims Conspiracy By Trio |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fRFNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IkgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2428%2C2512133 |newspaper=The Bryan Times |location=Bryan, Ohio |agency=UPI |pages=1–2 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref> He said that a young man was arrested just minutes after the shooting, taken in for questioning by police, then disappeared in the confusion.<ref name="The Bryan Times; November 17, 1967"/>
In the May 1970 issue of ''[[Computers and Automation]]'', [[Richard E. Sprague]] said that he used computer analysis of still photographs and movie films taken in Dealey Plaza.<ref name="Spokane Daily Chronicle; May 2, 1970">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Computer "Clears" Oswald; Kennedy Case Studied |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SF4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M_gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1650%2C378833 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=AP |page=1 |date=May 2, 1970 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref> Implicating four gunmen and at least 50 conspirators in Kennedy's assassination, he concluded that two shots had come from the Dal-Tex Building.<ref name="Spokane Daily Chronicle; May 2, 1970"/> Five years later in September 1975, Sprague and [[L. Fletcher Prouty]] stated that their study of still photographs and film of the assassination revealed that the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building was one of three or four firing positions during the assassination.<ref name="Milwaukee Sentinel; September 4, 1975">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=2 Claim Conspiracy Proof in JFK's Death |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SiMWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zhEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6431%2C544045 |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |agency=UPI |page=2 |date=September 4, 1975 |access-date=April 11, 2015}}</ref>
==Photo gallery== <gallery> File:Dal-Tex Bldg.jpg|The Dal-Tex Building (right), across the street from the Texas School Book Depository Building File:Dealey Plaza.jpg|Warren Commission exhibit #876 showing the location of the Dal-Tex Building </gallery>
==See also== {{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Texas}} *[[List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas]] *[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas]] *[[List of Dallas Landmarks]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.library.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/document.html?urn=urn%3Autlol%3Agreene.txu-aaa-gld00001&exh=Dallas&primSec=Dallas&pageq=3 Image of original architectural plans for the Elm Street elevation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091957/http://www.library.utexas.edu/exhibits/greene/document.html?urn=urn:utlol:greene.txu-aaa-gld00001&exh=Dallas&primSec=Dallas&pageq=3 |date=2016-03-04 }}
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