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American architect, surveyor, and civil engineer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hix McCanless (born 1868 in Tennessee)[1] was an architect, surveyor, and civil engineer of Ennis, Texas.[1]
After the establishment of railroad service, McCanless's family moved from Tennessee to Ennis when he was a small boy.[1] He attested Texas A&M College,[1] and returned to Ennis in the 1890s
In Ennis, he rapidly became established as one of the best-respected architects in town by 1902, and was actively working as an architect, and sometimes surveyor and platter, until at least 1924.[1]
He designed many of the city's most prominent institutional, commercial, and domestic structures, and was noted as "something of an artist", combining architectural elements of different styles including Georgian Revival, American Bungalow, late Victorian, Neoclassical, and even fanciful Medieval elements.[1]
He became the Ennis city engineer by the early 1920s (to at least 1925), and was responsible for the brick paving of the downtown thoroughfares, as well as platting multiple municipal expansions.[1]
A number of his works in Ennis (including his own home) are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[2]
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