Editing Abilene, Texas (section)

=== Notable architecture ===
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Notable and historical buildings in Abilene include:

*[[Hotel Wooten]] (1930) at 302 Cypress Street downtown, built by grocery entrepreneur H. O. Wooten, at 16 stories tall, is designed after the [[Drake Hotel (Chicago)|Drake Hotel]] in [[Chicago]]. It was restored in 2004 as a high-end apartment building.
*First Baptist Church (1954) at 1442 North Second Street has a spire 140 feet from the ground. Pastor Jesse Northcutt oversaw the planning of this building of 325 tons of steel.
*The Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal, at 602 Meander Street, reflects surprising Gothic architecture on the West Texas Plains. Its plaque reads: "No man entering a house ignores him who dwells in it. This is the house of God and He is here."
*The 20-story [[Enterprise Tower]] at 500 Chestnut Street, the highest structure in Abilene, rises to 283 feet above the Plains. It is the tallest building in west central Texas and one of the five highest in the western two-thirds of the state.
*The Taylor County Courthouse at 300 Oak Street, with its international architectural style of concrete and pink granite, resembles few other courthouses.
*[[Paramount Theatre (Abilene, Texas)|Paramount Theatre]] at 352 Cypress Street opened in 1930 and restored in 1986 had an original marquee 90 feet tall, with 1,400 lights.
*Lincoln Junior High School, 1699 South First Street. In 2012, the Abilene Independent School District deeded the property to the City of Abilene. This property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 2012. Built in 1923, the architecture is Gothic Revival and includes two large gargoyles at the entrance and has Gothic and art deco motifs. It opened as Abilene High School in 1924, became Lincoln Junior High in 1955, and Lincoln Middle School in 1985. The campus closed in 2007. As of 2019, the Abilene Heritage Square was renovating the school into "a multipurpose center for learning, making, discovery, building community and innovating and encouraging our city's future businesses."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Abilene Heritage Square|url=https://www.abileneheritagesquare.org/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=Abilene Heritage Square|language=en-US}}</ref> The Abilene Public Library will also use the restored building as the new main branch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/library-event-center-coffee-shop-and-more-coming-to-old-lincoln-middle-school/|title=Library, event center, coffee shop, and more part of $41.5 million project at old Lincoln Middle School|date=2019-07-26|website=KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref>