The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 61, July 1957 - April, 1958 Page: 308
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
1858. Association members will recall that the annual meeting
programs for 1955 and 1956 carried Waterman L. Ormsby's ac-
count of the first westbound Butterfield stage across Texas.
Rupert N. Richardson wrote on the Butterfield line in the
Quarterly for July, 1925, and J. W. Williams has recently done
likewise in the July, 1957, number. Gene Hollon's article is ac-
companied by a painting of Frederic Remington and a map
of the route.
Dr. P. I. Nixon of San Antonio has unquestionably distin-
guished himself in his chosen field of medicine but his interests
and contributions have been much broader, extending into many
facets of history. Somewhat likewise Dr. C. M. Pomerat, while
Professor of Cytology at the University of Texas Medical School,
has had for an avocation the delightful experience of delving into
architecture, in the course of which he has lectured in the schools
of architecture at Rice Institute and Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
Recently Drs. Nixon and Pomerat have engaged in a corre-
spondence concerning how the dome for San Jos6 Mission was
constructed. One of the concluding letters by Dr. Pomerat gives
valuable information on the dome problem which has long been
seeking an answer in Texas history. The "Texas Collection" is
pleased to be able to make this a matter of record.
Dear Dr. Nixon:
I am pleased to inform you that I recently heard from Dr. Richard
H. Howland [of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 712
Jackson Place N. W., Washington, D. C.] concerning the plan of
how the domes were put on top of Texas churches in the Colonial
Spanish period. Here is an excerpt from his letter:
"I feel quite certain that the dome construction in all mission
churches was done with a wooden centering, rather than by filling
the interior of the church with sand and building the masonry dome
on the ensuing mound. One reason for disbelieving the latter pro-
cedure is that the lateral pressure of the dirt or sand within the
walls of the church would be so great that they would begin to push
the walls apart, before the dome could be built and the sand la-
boriously extricated by shovels and buckets. Also the history of
dome construction in small churches in Spain, Italy and other
Mediterranean sites shows the use of some kind of primitive center-
ing, rather than the use of a mass of earth.308
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