M and J Nelson Building

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M and J Nelson Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Location	300 South Main Street. McAllen, Texas
Coordinates	26°12′05″N 98°14′07″W / 26.20126°N 98.235250°W / 26.20126; -98.235250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1949
Built by	Morris Randall Nelson and Jack Nelson
Architect	Gillette and Bell
Architectural style	Modernistic
NRHP reference No.	08000962^[1]
RTHL No.	12060
Added to NRHP	October 1, 2008
Designated RTHL	2007

The M and J Nelson Building (also known as the J. C. Penney Building) is a building in downtown McAllen, Texas, that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

It is a three-story reinforced concrete two-part commercial block building built between 1948 and 1950 for the J. C. Penney Company. It was built in Streamlined Moderne style, with horizontal bands of red and buff brick and cast stone trim, and with aluminum entrance doors and stair rails and two exterior display cases at its Chicago Avenue entrance.^[2]

It was one of few buildings in McAllen having an elevator at the time it was built, and one of few with air conditioning.^[2]

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Rachel Leibowitz; Sonia Falcon; Xavier Cervantes; Carolynn Nelson (March 24, 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: M & J Nelson Building". Texas Historical Commission. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Includes 11 photos from 2008.

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