Marker Inscription
In 1926, Charles A. Fisk, president of the Amarillo Bank and Trust, and other investors commissioned this skyscraper designed by Amarillo architect Guy A. Carlander and built by the Gilsonite Contracting Co. of Dallas. The building formally opened in Dec. 1928, when an Amarillo Daily News article reported its cost as “dangerously close” to one million dollars. Fisk’s bank occupied the ground floor, with a mix of professional and retail tenants above. The eleven-story steel-reinforced concrete frame building is clad in red brick with terra cotta trim and exhibits gothic revival style detailing.
About this site
Fisk Medical Arts & Professional Building is a historical marker in Amarillo, Potter County, dedicated in 2011. It is one of 49 historical markers documented in Potter County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 73 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 35.2040, -101.8370 near Amarillo. The nearest cataloged historic site is Santa Fe Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Bivins Home, and Site of Significant Archeological Find, American Mammoths.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5507016911. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
