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    In 1957, the Houston-Harris County T.B. Association constructed a building located at 2901 West Dallas Street. The architect who designed the building was Henry A. Stubee. Tuberculosis must have been a major illness back in the day. It still is, but now we have modern medicine to (better) treat it. Rendering (drawing) from Henry A. Stubee: Photograph of the building. Building signage.
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    This aerial photograph (depiction?) is kind of rare! Maybe it's the name that keeps it under the surface? DePelchin Faith Home partnered with Anna Dupree to buy and build a large campus in Fifth Ward to establish the Anna Dupree Cottage of The Negro Child Center of Houston. This would have been in the 1940s. 1947 I think? Building dedication with Anna Dupree and her husband beside her. Edit: Ben Taub on the right! The cottage style campus as seen in the 1940s:
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    In 1938, the DePelchin Faith Home bought a 10-acre campus in Memorial at 100 Sandman Street. This is the decade(s) where Ben Taub was President of the DePelchin Faith Home. Photo of the historic, now demolished, building:
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    The 2nd location of the DePelchin Faith Home was located at 1918 Chenevert Street. Beautiful building.
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    In 1892, Agnes Perry told Kezia Payne DePelchin she could use her home as a Faith Home for the unfortunate children and orphans. This is where it all began! DePelchin Children's Center is still operating today, some 132-years after the founding. Photos of the historic mansion/house.
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    An aerial photograph of the building. It's beautiful!
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    I didn't know the Cullen family donated money to build the residence hall of The Center for The Retardation. Just amazing information I found. I actually watched the demolition of this old building back in 2021. Sad to a Cullen building be torn down Bummer! SI Morris & Associated was the building architect. Newly built building in 1979: Demolition in 2021:
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    In 1912, J.C. McDearmon was the founder of the maternity home in The Heights located at 120 West 14th Street.
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    The Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences was founded as a Baylor College of Medicine project in 1955 and funded by the state legislature in 1957 as the Houston State Psychiatric Institute for Research and Training. It was under the administrative management of the Board for Texas Hospitals and Special Schools, with the requirement that it act as the research and training branch of the state mental health and intellectual disability service system. The TRIMS was located in the Carriage House at The Baker Estate.
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    The little bungalow at 806 Bagby Street first opened in 1913 as the Free Clinic for the Houston Anti-Tuberculosis League.
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    From what I understand, the St. Anthony Center was a retirement center for Priests. Found some information this week. I thought the Sacred Heart College campus was before the St. Anthony Center. According to this map, it was located on the next block over.
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    In the 1950s, there was a mental health/psychiatric sanitarium in the East End called Benner Sanitarium located at 3510 Sherman Street. Houston's Finest & Best Equipped Nursing Home Benner Sanitarium, Inc. 3510 Sherman at Hutcheson, Houston, Texas Phones Fa. 3-1601 / Ca. 7-6080 A Nursing Home giving Hospital care to patients needing lengthy convalescent, Geriatric, or Psychiatric care. Private – Semi Private – Ward Rooms. Leona Benner Langston-White – Supervisor.
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    The George Hermann Estate put out a short documentary about him. Within the documentary there was a depiction of the 2-story family home in downtown Houston. The house (mansion) was located 122 Smith Street. I believe the drawing/painting is accurate. They accurately depicted Hermann Hospital in the same video. Very cool history here. This would have been in 1843. 181 years ago! Now there is a city park where the house once stood. Hermann Square Park is located at 900 Bagby Street. Hermann Hospital:
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    June 29, 1978.
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    Found a detailed information and photograph sheet. Department of Buildings and Bridges of the G.H. & S.A. RY, Architects
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    Day 3 demolition progress. The building is now down.
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    Yesterday I stopped at the Landry's corporate headquarters located in Uptown at 1510 West Loop South. Here's some photos that I took: The fountain is very cool. It has small "cards" that match the text below. Dining * Hospitality * Entertainment * Gaming
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    I stopped by for a site visit to check around. 5600 San Felipe Street: The residential development next door is called San Felipe Park, 5602 - 5640 San Felipe Street.
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    Day 2 demolition progress.
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    Hines' new Levit Green life sciences campus near Texas Medical Center adds tenant Apr 15, 2024 https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2024/04/15/hines-levit-green-life-sciences-pranax-tenant.html Houston-based Hines has landed another tenant for Levit Green, a 53-acre life sciences campus near the Texas Medical Center. Pinehurst, Texas-based PranaX inked a lease for a 7,400-square-foot, turn-key lab space on the second floor of Levit Green’s Building 1 at 6420 Levit Green Blvd., Hines said April 15. PranaX’s business focuses on using exosomes, or membrane-bound extracellular vesicles, to confer regenerative therapies aimed at treating aging, inflamed and damaged tissue and organs. The company recently entered into a technology licensing agreement with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to commercialize exosomes as therapeutics, natural supplements and wellness products that can promote healthy aging.
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    Stopped by the site yesterday. Texas National Bank (then First Texas Bank) is being demolished. Demolition day 1:
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    The gorgeous One Dynamic Way seems to have gotten a paint job. The lower portion of the building, that's supposed to connect to Two Dynamic Way, has been painted this week. I really like the color, or texture.
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    I do believe the podium is completed. Now there is a retaining wall forming. From the rendering, it appears there's a small area before the hospital floors. The stacking diagram says mechanical? Construction photos from today.
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    Construction update this week. The School of Pubic Health building is rising fast! SCRB5. SOPH. SCG2.
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    Construction update this week.
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