Pan American Arena (Livestock Coliseum), c.1929

Architect unknown
George Dahl, renovation, 1936

As he did on the Esplanade, Dahl incorporated existing buildings into a much larger facility, and faced them with a new Art Deco facade.  The new entrance was symmetrically aligned with the north entrance of the stadium, terminating a much longer planning axis that extended south to the Museum of Fine Arts.  Within this contiguous building are various livestock barns, one of which has been renovated into the Dallas Police Mounted Unit Headquarters, Gary Garmon, 1998.

Credits: Excerpts taken from The American Institute of Architects Guide to Dallas Architecture, published in 1999 by the American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter. The editor of this book was Larry Paul Fuller. The Fair Park Introduction and entries were written by Willis Winters, AIA.

Permission to publish these excerpts was granted by The American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter, in October 2002.