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Eugene Heiner designed the Charles S. House mansion in downtown Houston in 1882. Kind of reminds me of a George Dickey design. Both awesome architects!

Breaking holy ground Incarnate Word Academy will celebrate the 133rd anniversary of the Academy's Foundation Day and break ground for the school's new $8.5 million Fine Arts Center at 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 5. The three-story center for the school, which has been in downtown for more than a century, will be built at the corner of Crawford and Capitol streets.

Can someone please identify this high school? Where was it located? Photo is circa 1907. Imagine if it had been saved? Even better, can we ever identify the architect? Appears like one of Nicholas J. Clayton's works of art. http://www.family-images.com/misc/schools/1907%20Houston%20Texas%20High%20School.jpg

Not 100% of the address but this is my guess based on the info in the tweet.

This week I discovered that John H. Kirby founded his own bank, or was President of the bank, called Planters and Mechanics' National Bank. The building was located in downtown at 214 Main Street. I was able to find a photo (drawing) of the bank from the late 1890s to the early 1900s. I wonder if there's a better photograph out there? I'm sure HAIF will find it one day. It's also remarkable of all banks that were located on Main Street. You would think Houston was London!

Texas Dental College's 4th building built in 1919 was located at 1015 1/2 Franklin Street. I wonder the architect of this beautiful building? The current site of 1015 Franklin is a surface lot near UH-D. Too bad this one was demolished!

The very first Texas Dental College was located in Market Square in downtown Houston. Looking on Google Maps, you can see the left-over building material up against the current building, La Carafe. Built in 1905 and had an address of 813 1/2 Congress Street. Love the design of this building, and the smaller torrent on top.

Did this get missed? COA was approved in April. 4 story office building on a currently vacant lot. ShowDoc.aspx (houstontx.gov)

Harris County bought 1111 Fannin from Triten recently. They want to consolidate several properties to this building. This would be huge for downtown. The County own a lot of buildings/land that would present great development opportunities for more urban infill on northside of CBD. Looking forward to more details. https://therealdeal.com/2021/06/09/harris-county-set-to-buy-downtown-houston-office-building-for-close-to-29m/

http://downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2014-01-06/140102_Current_Projects_11x17.pdf This proposal has been on the development map for a while now, guess no one really noticed. Anyway, the owner behind the plans recently asked the DRA to increase funding. I'm not sure if the building will be converted to residential or hotel use.

Found this article and thought you would like it. http://www.dancing-times.co.uk/DT200409/da...es200409-2.html

Not sure if anyone knows but I'm a huge fan of the Houston architect Eugene T. Heiner. His architectural work was done in the late 1800s. I came across a cool historic building designed by Eugene T. Heiner and wanted to share. Building was built either in the 1870s or 1890s. WM. D Cleveland Wholesale Grocer and Cotton Factor. The abbreviated name stands for William Davis Cleveland. The company operated under 3 names that I know of. - WM. D. Cleveland & Co. - WM. D. Cleveland & Sons. - WM. D. Cleveland. Building closer up. I'll look for a better version!

Researched the Dallas architect Charles D. Hill earlier in the week. Mr. Hill designed a few Houston buildings in the 1920s. Charles Hill designed the downtown Houston church called First Baptist Church of Houston which was located at 1010 Lamar Street. Incredibly, there are still photos of the now demolished building. It looks much older than 1920s. I'd say it looks like it was built in the 1890s.

I know HAIF has a few masonic temples, but I couldn't find anything on this cool building. Very cool! Is the structure still standing? From the newspaper The Houston Post dated October 7, 1923. Scottish Rite Cathedral Is Noteworthy Structure With brick and stone work finished and rapid strides being made in interior construction, another note worthy institution is fast being added to those already in Houston. It is the big new five-story Scottish Rite cathedral at Polk avenue and Caroline street, to cost, when completed and equipped, in the neighborhood of $500,000. Although this great cathedral is five stories in height, there will be but three floors inside for the two high-ceiling lodge halls will be two stories each. The structure is of granite, stone and brick. Alfred C. Finn is architect, the American Construction Company builders. The first floor will be devoted to club rooms, a long banquet hall, kitchens and other “feed” equipment. On one side of the second story is to be the main cathedral hall, and on the other a lodge room and other minor chambers. One half of the third floor is to be devoted to a balcony to the main cathedral hall, while the other side will be another lodge room, dressing rooms, leafing to the stage and quarters for the caretaker. The feature of the building, outside of the completeness and general modernity for fraternal purposes, will be the main cathedral hall or auditorium, seating 1200 persons on the main floor. Main floor and balcony and with stage elaborately equipped and lighted. It will be a model for Little Theater to copy for many a day. Scenery cost nearly $25,000 already has been ordered. Finest and most delicate stage lightning schemes will be made possible. ? Hoskins is chairman of the building committee, other members of the which are Max Taub, M.F. Waddell, M.M. Graves, and John H. ?

The founders of River Oaks eventually built a downtown office tower called Country Club Estates Building located at 707 Fannin Street. I'm not sure if I recognize the 1920s design. I know John Staub worked a lot for the Country Club Estates company in River Oaks. The building went under a remodel as the Country Club Estates company grew. There was an added ornamental piece on top of the building.

While looking at The Houston Post dated January 4, 1906 I noticed a business listing for Jos F. Meyer Company located at 803 To 812 Franklin Ave. This history is so old that I'm surprised we have access to it. Amazing history here. This is cool! Joseph Meyer started the Meyerland history. Ellwood Hog and Field Fence. Western scrapers and plows. Stalk cutters, plows, harrows, cultivators, and farming implements of every description.

I just discovered this today. Can anyone date this business advertisement? By the way, S. would stand for Sidney, or Sid. From the book Pioneer Jewish Texans: their impact on Texas and American history for four hundred years, 1590-1990. Published in 1989. S. Westheimer & Bro. Livery Stable 102, 104, 106, 108 San Jacinto, St., cor. Commerce Ave. Houston, Texas Carriages with careful drivers furnished any hour, day or night. First-class rigs at reasonable prices.

Well, nevermind - the place I was thinking of was much smaller (Ladies Boarding School, located at McKinney and Crawford, from the 1877 directory): http://www.arch-ive.org/cellar/ladiesboardingschool_77.jpg

Wesley House was founded in 1904, by a group of women from the nearby First United Methodist Church. Around 1911 the organization was named Young Women's Co-Operative Home but reverted back to the Wesley House. I wonder if funding, or leadership, was involved in the brief name change? From my knowledge, this was their 3rd location built in the 1940s. Edit: The building looks like it was built between the 1900s-1910s.

Houston Academy - (For boys and girls) 1706 Polk ave cor Jackson. C.W. Welch, principal. The overcrowding of public schools encouraged the growth of private ones. Processor Chris W. Welch had opened the Houston Academy in 1896 in a large house at Polk and Jackson.

First off, Im not supposed to let this out....I promised my source. But after hearing this news, I felt compelled to post it here, seeing as this forum isnt as well known, I feel safe to post it here. But most importantly, Im all for downtown development and this I feel is a huge loss for the Downtown nightlife/club scene. I feel when I post what I know, most will take me seriously and understand my point of view and offer up ther own insightfull analysis or logical opinion. In the club promoting industry, the time from January to Spring Break is usually a dry time, when club's see their least business. Reasons vary from cold weather, to school starting back up, to the crowd being simply partied out from the holidays. Of late, Things have been slowing and crowds have been thining downtown. The fear is that alot of smaller downtown clubs will not make it to see Spring Break, something my trusted source ominously confirmed. And when a big Club venue downtown goes down this soon, it will cause gitters downtown for other samller venues, which might cause a few to pull the trigger and pull out of downtown. The big club I speak of going down is MBar. This is sad for me since majority of my friends work here. It wasnt just a club for me, It was more like going to a frat party and socializing. For the last few years of my life, Ive had some memoriable times here. This place means alot to me and Im truly sadden to hear of its impending demise. From what Ive been told, it will close before Janurary is out. In fact, Ive even been told that last Saturday night was its Final Night. For Downtown, This means no more MilkShake nights on Thursday nights, which was a huge "celebrity-filled" draw 4 years strong. The same could be said for Saturday's as well. When a smaller venue like Dean's across the street sees another larger neighbor close its doors (Opus close by as well) it does not bode well for the downtown scene. Can Downtown's nightlife scene survive this dry time? From what I hear, there are going to be alot of vacancies opening up soon where clubs used to be.

Whats the price range for rent on , say, a 600 sq ft apt at Rice hotel?

My background is posted on the Central Square topic in case this doesn't make sense to anyone. I lived in the Savoy hotel for about 6 months starting last February. I discovered and had to explore the building the moment I saw a huge chandeller (sp?) hanging from behind a broken window in the lobby. It's hard to keep me out of any building and it wasn't long before I had discovered an entrance. The Savoy is actually two buildings, the older, shorter one on the north side and the addition on the south. The older building is absolutely rotten and decrepit. It has caved in from the top floor to the ground and actually looks pretty freakin cool. Toilets hanging by plumbing ten stories up and whatnot. Well anyways, that's where the fire escape was, though they had cut it off about two stories up. I had to climb up a support pole to reach it. And then go down an elevator shaft to get to the newer building. Once in it's always easy to find a way out. My first astonishing discovery was that the place was still completely furnished and obviously nobody had been in it for quite some time. I'm from California where land is worth more than gold so this was quite shocking. Also, the electricity was still on for some reason. There's a refrigerator downstairs in the kitchen that has the door ripped of and has been constantly on since 1988 and is probably still on. There was also a phone in the lobby that I used to get calls on. 713-something-1212. It's still listed and I used to get calls from people asking for room rates. The downstairs is actually really pretty. Tall ceilings and curved staircases, huge chandelliers and a beautiful solid marble statue in the entryway. Two libraries, (stocked completely with Texas law books) a patio area between the two buildings had a fountain and a jacuzzi, now smashed and covered in pigeon refuse. Anybody know why the hell they would leave the electricity on for so long? Makes no sense to me. The owner is obviously hoping for the "New Main Street" effect to take place that far south and have the building converted into lofts ala Rice. I don't see that happening anytime soon, but then again it's already been closed for 16 years. The upper floors are rather ugly and boring. Single hallways straight through with cookie cutter rooms on each side. The penthouse suites are kind of nice but still I don't think they could call this place urban lofts without gutting the whole building. There's no uniqueness to it. The older building was obviously a hell of a lot classier in it's day but when Best Western had control of it you could tell it was a bit cut rate. I have a pile of brochures for it from the 70's that I'll scan if I get the time. I think the hotel was mainly for visiting Shell employees across the street. They'll have to demolish the older building before they can do anything with the newer one, as they are both connected and the older one threatens to demolish itself any day now. I say smash it and start over, the building is too ugly to ever be profitable. But in the meantime, open it to the homeless sleeping on the sidewalks outside. (that's what I told the owner anyways, with a few expletives added in) They have the parking garage open now, mainly so the penny pinching millionaire can make 30 bucks a day and watch the building he's sitting on sit empty while people sleep outside. Sorry, I hate landlords, particularly that one. Any questions? Any other buildings worth getting into? I'll be back in Houston come January. Charles Grube beware.

We've seen reports that highlight the lack of green-space in Southern DT, but plans are being set in place for a park in this area. In the very early stages, 1/2 - 1 Block will be acquired for the park. This will be a joint effort by the Downtown Management District, COH Parks Dept. and TIRZ 3.