Praetorian Building (Waco, Texas)

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Praetorian Building
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Location	601 Franklin Ave., Waco, Texas
Coordinates	31°33′18″N 97°7′55″W / 31.55500°N 97.13194°W / 31.55500; -97.13194Coordinates: 31°33′18″N 97°7′55″W / 31.55500°N 97.13194°W / 31.55500; -97.13194
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915 (1915)
Built by	Hughes O'Rourke Const.
Architect	C. W. Bulger & Co.
Architectural style	Chicago
Part of	Waco Downtown Historic District (ID11001094^[1])
NRHP reference No.	84001911^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 26, 1984
Designated CP	February 3, 2012

The Praetorian Building is an historic 7-story building located at 601 Franklin Avenue in Waco, McLennan County, Texas. Designed by the Dallas architectural firm of C. W. Bulger & Co. in the Chicago school or Modern style of architecture, it was built it 1915 by Hughes O'Rourke Construction to house the Praetorian Insurance Company whose main office, the Praetorian Building in Dallas, had been designed by C. E. Bulger in 1905. Other names the building has borne over the years are Franklin Tower, the Service Mutual Building and Southwestern Building.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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