Texas Highway Department Complex
110 Forest Park, Lufkin, TXConstructed by highway department employees in 1935. A good example of rustic landscaping in footbridges and grounds. Plaque on the site reads "This site was donated to the State Highway Department of Texas for Division Headquarters by A.L. Boynton, Mrs. I.D. Fairchild,
M.M. Boynton, and John S. Redditt." The donation was completed on part of the current 10-acre site in 1934.
The Division 11 Office was moved from Beaumont to Lufkin on March 6, 1925. Tom E. Hufman was the resident district engineer in 1937. Division 11 included 14 counties, Angelina, Nacogdoches, Houston, Jasper, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity, Tyler, Jefferson, Orange, and Hardin. Huffmann was particularly interested in landscaping. The grounds and buildings were constructed by highway department employees. The rock utilized in the buildings and landscape was hauled in from all over East Texas. The highway department also built the streets in the vicinity of the headquarters. It was primarily a forested area when the department first moved there. There are six contributing structures and four non-contributing structures in the complex. The areas of significance are architecture and transportation at the state level.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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