Page 29 - Plano, TX Heritage Preservation Plan

Architectural Styles
• Colonial Revival • Bungalow
• Tudor • Prairie
• Italianate/ • Neoclassical
Romanesque • Eclectic
• Craftsman
• Second Empire

Modern Infrastructure
INTERURBAN OPENS The Plano Persists Era was a time of modern
infrastructure and technological advancements
Commonly known as the Interurban Line, the Texas including:
Electric Railway connected Plano to the greater North • Telephone (1883) • Concrete Sidewalks
Texas region, making it possible for Plano residents • Water (1897) (1909)
to work in Dallas and other communities. Plano’s • Artesian Water (1904) • Oiled & Graveled
downtown Interurban substation is the only remaining Streets (1917)
substation in existence on this line. • Trash (1909) • Paved Roads (1925)
• Sewer (1909) • Natural Gas (1926)

“Big Tom” Fire Truck
1,258 (1915)
POPULATION Plano’s first motorized
OF PLANO Carlisle fire truck

World War I (1914-1918)
1910
1906 1908 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920

Aldridge S. B. Wyatt R. A. Davis Merritt Saigling

Hughston
Arch Weatherford

BANK ROBBERY (1920)

Football & baseball
teams are established at Plano
High School

On the night of February 28, 1920, Deputy
City Marshal Green W. Rye discovered two
Civic Auditorium men robbing the Plano National Bank. Rye
Constructed was shot and fatally wounded by the robbers,
(1909) who successfuly escaped He would later be
memorialized as Plano’s first officer killed in
the line of duty.

Residential Commercial Church Cemetery Downtown Fire

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