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This Atlanta Texas brick is from the historical 1925 apartment building 600 (602-604) Elsbeth Street in Dallas, Texas. Also known as "The Gateway to Bishop Arts", where Lee Harvey Oswald lived with his wife Marina and baby June in Unit #2, where he purchased the gun that killed Officer Tippit, after the tragic assassination of President Kennedy. There is a picture of 600 (602-604) Elsbeth in the Warren Commission drawn by the landlord of 600 Elsbeth, Mr. Tobias, when the Oswald's lived there.
When the property owner, me-Jane Bryant bought 600 Elsbeth in 2007, I had no idea it was a historical building. It was the city and local developers that began harassing me to renovate the property without any zoning or tear it down. Thanks to Brett Shipp/ABC/WFAA at the time, Richard Ray/Fox News, Roy Appleton/DMN, Todd Unger, Stoney Jackson and Andrea Lucia at CBS, Jason Whatley, Jason Whiten, Rachel Stone, the buildings history as a former home of Lee Harvey Oswald where he lived with his family was documented. Later, the building came down from the forced and unnecessary, brutal, greedy, demolition by the City of Dallas. People from all over the world came to collect mementos from the building and appreciate it before it came down in 2013. All Dallas television, radio, internet, newspaper outlets wrote mostly poignant stories of the buildings history in a cry to save it. Articles were published in D Magazine, Oak Cliff People, Dallas Observer, the Advocate, Austin and Houston Papers. The San Francisco Chronicle, La Times, Boston Globe, The Associate Press, The Moscow Times, The Edenborough Times. The London Times, in Australia, Spain, Italy, Portugal and many other counties. Many of the international visitors and US based visitors sought some kind of relic from 600 (602-604) Elsbeth. So, we tried to save as much as possible. As recently as October 9, 2023, a story featured the property in Candy's Dirt by writer April Towery.
The Atlanta Texas bricks are also antiques and very unique because of the specks of iron ore which are rare and naturally in the clay. The factory located in Atlanta Texas, burned down in the 1930's.
A copy of the 602-604 Elsbeth building picture in the Warren Commission and a letter of authentication signed by me-Jane Bryant, the property owner, will be included with your brick.
Buyers may purchase 1 brick at a time, shipping is included in the price of the brick. A few more items from the building are posted. , 2 large tile blocks from the LHO Unit#2 bathroom (Currently Listed and all that is remaining) and some fragile original wallpaper from Unit #2. Thanks for saving a piece of history! Love, Jane
