Wyatt C. Hedrick

Wyatt Cephus Hedrick (1888, Pittsylvania County, Virginia - 1964) was an American architect, engineer, and developer most active in Texas and the American south.

Starting in practice in Fort Worth in 1922, opening his own practice in 1925, Hedrick was responsible for many of the tallest buildings in the city and several buildings now on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1925 he married Mildred Sterling, and in 1931 his father-in-law, Ross S. Sterling, became governor of Texas.

Hedrick worked mainly in a stripped-Classical style. With his extensive university and government work, at one time his firm was the third-largest in the United States.

Commissions include:

* Eudora Welty House, Jackson, Mississippi, 1925
* Medical Arts Building (razed), Fort Worth,Texas, 1926
* Historic Electric Building, Fort Worth, Texas, 1929
* Sterick Building, Memphis, Tennessee, 1930
* Commerce Building, Fort Worth, Texas, 1930
* Texas and Pacific Terminal and Warehouse, Fort Worth, Texas, 1931
* United States Post Office, Fort Worth, Texas, 1933
* Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth, Texas, 1936 (with Elmer G. Withers)
* Fort Worth City Hall, now the Public Safety and Courts Building, 1938 (with Elmer G. Withers)
* The legendary Shamrock Hotel (razed), Houston, Texas, 1946-1949
* B H Carroll Memorial Building, Fort Worth, Texas, 1948
* Yucca Theatre (Still in operation!), Midland, Texas, 1929

Sources

* [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fhe51.html biography from Texas Handbook Online]
* [http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=wyattchedrickco-fortworth-tx-usa list of commissions on Emporis]
* [http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/yucca/index.php Texas Monthly article on the Yucca Theatre]