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Finally found an address to go with the business! For almost a year, I have been looking for an address. From the book: The Key to the City of Houston, published in 1908: The New Beach Auditorium Houston's Select Social Centre Best equipped building of its kind in the Southwest. Lighting throughout by electricity and gas. Main Auditorium and Ball Room 64x90 feet with a seating capital of 1,500. A twenty two foot high steel ceiling makes acoustic properties perfect. A Steinway Orchestral Grand Piano just installed. Banquet room with a seating capacity of 250 on second floor. The auditorium can be engaged for recitals, lectures, private receptions, club meetings, assemblies, and high all class entertainments of an exclusive nature. For the reservation of either the Auditorium or Bryan Hall, or information in regard to classes, private lessons, terms, etc. address Mr. and Mrs. Monta Beach The Auditorium Telephone Connection / Houston Texas From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated March 22, 1914: Dancing School Beach, Monta, Beach Auditorium, 1110 Main St. Preston 957. Palm Dancing Academy, Bryan Hall, F. W. Reeve, Mgr., 810 ½ Fannin St. Preston 693.

Cool history here!! I wanted to share with HAIF my research this week. Found a postcard, and then looked further into it. The website oscarwildeinamerica.org has an in depth write up that I will use as my source guide. https://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/lectures-1882/june/0623-houston.html Gray's Opera House West side of Fannin Street, Houston, TX, between Congress and Preston Streets (now 320 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77002, opposite the courthouse) Opened: c. 1860s (as Gray's Hall) Converted: May 1879 (Gray's Opera House) Seating capacity: 800-1000 Destroyed (fire): August 8, 1889 Replaced by: Sweeney and Coombs Opera House (opened November 3, 1890) which later became the Houston Theatre and The Prince. But this is not the same building as Gray's as sometimes suggested.

I was reading a national medical directory dated in 1914 and came across this cool, unique, part of history. Any photos of this? Or the architect? Houston- City Emergency Home and Day Nursery, 611 Bagby. Est'd 1912. Supt. E.R. Baldry.

I recently discovered another Wyatt C. Hedrick and Gottlieb building that was built in the 1920s. Thought I would share this information regarding this old downtown bank. Very cool history here!!

wow!! This building and address! Would love to see a clearer photo. Any ideas on the architect? Found this hospital while reading the newspaper The Houston Post. dated February 27, 1911. Houston Homeopathic Hospital Phone Preston 3955 of Dr. Harlan Trask / 815 Main Street One of the best equipped hospitals in the South for the sick an afflicted, where patients receive the best personal treatment and attendance. Trained nurses and attendants are employed. The medical and surgical staff includes physicians of long and extensive experience in hospital and sanitarium work. The Houston Homeopathic Hospital continues a career of exampled success, the reason of which is, chiefly, that all its appliances are administrated upon the only scientific principals of medicine in existence , vis. The Homeopathic. The Homeopathy should not be registered to see of drugs-baths, message, electricity, are all subject to the same principals. Who knows about Homeopathic baths? The are the only successful form of baths--

This is awesome!! I was reading the newspaper dated The Texas Jewish Herald dated April 14, 1927 and came across this business advertisement. Love the word, or type of hospital, called sanitarium. You don't see that anymore! I wonder what word is equivalent today? Treatment center? Rehab? Looks like in present-day this is where 5 Houston Center is with the fancy, glass, spiral staircase? Would love to see a photo of this sanitarium. Anyone know anything about it? Dr. E. L. Fox Sanitarium and X-Ray Laboratory Electrical Modalities for Treatment of Disease 1310 McKinney Ave. Houston, Texas Phones: Office, Fairfax 4281 / Residence, Fairfax 4532

I never knew the company Recreation Bowling Alleys expanded so big. This is a whole new location! Anyone recall this place? Any photos or memories? Found this in the newspaper Labor Messenger dated December 1, 1944. Holiday Greetings: Recreation Bowling Alleys 20 Brunswick Alleys 1815 San Jacinto C. 2617 Recreation Bowling Alleys 20 Brunswick Alleys 6445 Main K. 3-3639

I believe I discovered an earlier building than their Richmond & Montrose location. Anyone have photos, or additional details about this? From the The Houston Post. dated June 2, 1915: Business Meeting of Ladies' Auxiliary. There will be a called business meeting f the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd this morning at 10 o'clock at the convent, 1511 Chenevert street. Arrangements will be made for a card party which the auxiliary will give Tuesday, June 8, for the benefit of the home. All members re urged to be in attendance at this meeting.

Very interest! I thought The Green Parrot was located in Riverside Terrace at 2314 Macgregor Way? I'm assuming the 1950s restaurant on Bell Ave. was an earlier version of the restaurant. Or perhaps Macgregor Way was originally, or at one point, called Bell Avenue? I'm not familiar with Vera Fredericks. The owner of the Riverside Terrace Green Parrot restaurant. This could be a different restaurant all together! Never heard of it, a very rare find!

I was looking around for historic Houston things and came across some cool history. The Hutchins House Hotel from the late 1800s. I wonder if we can find this on any Sanborn maps? The Hutchins House – Houston, Texas $50,000 has been expended in remodeling and refurnishing this hotel. It is now first-class in every particular; fifty private bath rooms; electric elevator; new light plant; general equipment unsurpassed. American plan, $2.00 to $3.5 per day. European plan, $1.00 to $2.00 per day. Finest Turkish bath rooms in the south. W.T. & J.T. Boyle, Proprietors. I was looking for further information and found an event ticket for the Rail Road Ball that was held on January 23, 1872. From the newspaper The Age. dated July 15, 1875: Hotel - Hutchins House - N.P. Turner Corner Franklin and Travis streets

I was browsing the newspaper The Houston Post. dated July 9, 1906 and came across an article about gas ranges. Houston Gas Co. located at 604 Main Street took 5,000 people who bought their gas ranges and published their home addresses. You wouldn't see something like this today! Very cool. I was wondering if HAIF has any information regarding this home from the early 1900s. Any Sanborn maps, or photos? I can only image it was a huge mansion? Fun fact, in the 1950s, Mr. Battelstein lived in Riverside Terrace at 2115 Wichita Street.

Never knew about this! Some very cool, and hard to find, history here. I was browsing the newspaper The Houston Post. dated June 10, 1909 and came across this business advertisement for P. Battelstein & Co. located at 618 Main Street. This was before the infamous Battelstein's Department Store located at 812 Main Street. The Makers of Good Clothes P. Battelstein & Co. Up-To-Date Tailors 618 Main Street * Houston, Texas

On HAIF, there was a single blurb about this building from 15 years ago. Thought I would bring this topic to a fresh start and a dedicated thread. The armory and club was on top of Commercial National Bank building that is located on Franklin Street & Main Street. Here's a post card I found: Very cool! The original building is still standing. The building has been modified.

Over the weekend I discovered a new Alfred C. Finn building! The building is The Houston Clinic that was built in the mid 1920s. Looks like The Houston Clinic was established somewhere prior to the Main and Pease location. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated February 1, 1925. Houston Clinic To Have Model Home A structure which will represent the very latest and most modern features of the medical building construction, to be he home of the Houston Clinic, now is under construction at Main street and Pease avenue and is expected to be completed about August 15. It is the attractive Georgian style of architecture, and will place Houston in the front rank of Texas in another field of construction. The first floor will house the X-ray department and industrial clinic operating rooms. From the entrance hall, a stairway and elevator will lead to the comfortable and neatly furnished reception parlor on the second floor where the office of the business manager and general offices will be at the service of all visitors. Doctor's suites, consisting of a private office and three examination rooms each, will occupy one-half of the second and all of the third and fourth floors. A well studied system of inter-communication will facilities the business and give their visitors and callers very comfortable service and personal attention at all times. The nurses and attendants of the building will enjoy their rest rooms and neatly equipped service rooms. A full basement under all of the building, covering an area of 50 feet by 75 feet, will house the complete mechanical equipment of the steam heating plant, ice water, hot water, compressed air and refrigeration systems. A large supply store room and work shop opens into the stairs and elevator hall that leads to the fourth floors above. The foundation of the the building is being built to carry two additional stories, which will accommodate about 15 more doctors in the very near future. The firs unit of four stores and basement, with the mechanical equipment, will cost $150,000. The plans were drawn by the office of Alred C. Finn, architects, and the construction is under his supervision. The Southwestern Construction Company was awarded the general contract, A.T. Vick Company, the electrical contract; The Dixie Heating and Ventilating company, the heating contract and Lee Roberson the plumbing contract. Ground has been broken and the work is actively in progress.

Anyone know what’s happening here?

This location will be a new C-store and a liquor store. A sign on the lot also indicates a gas station, however, that isn't on the permit. These gas stations popping up on every major block are legit killing me.

John Deal of The Deal Company is the developer. https://www.dealco.net/our-properties Architect - http://www.lh2architecture.com

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/05/11/netrality-data-centers-expands-1301-fannin.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s "Netrality Data Centers is adding 17,000 square feet of space and 2.5 megawatts of critical capacity in the form of two data halls to the building it owns at 1301 Fannin St. The halls are expected to be online at the end of this summer, Netrality said May 11. https://baxtel.com/data-center/1301-fannin-netrality-houston

There are lots of references to the building from 1938, specifically naming Kenneth Franzheim, who at the same time was commissioned to design Lamar HS. You can draw some similarities between the designs of the two buildings. According to this article the building was planned to be next to the existing Taylor School, facing Smith Street, so about where the parking garage across from the old library is.

Found this in a HBJ piece on UH-D trying to work out an agreement for access to the campus during construction tied to the NHHIP. Didn't see it mentioned elsewhere before. https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/04/17/uh-downtown-txdot-i45-mou-campus-expansion.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_27&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s "Meanwhile, the NHHIP moving forward now is perfect timing, Thomas said, because UHD is also currently working on its campus master plan with its architectural firm, Dallas-based Huitt-Zollars. Feedback the university has received about the master plan includes the desire for a traditional university feeling with green spaces and gathering spaces that would elevate campus engagement. This could even include housing, Thomas said. Currently, UHD does not offer on-campus housing. “The sky's the limit,” Thomas said. “We could do so many things for our students.” The master plan, which has been in the works since September, will most likely be completed in July and presented to the board of trustees in the fall, she said."

I wonder if this is related to the North Canal Diversion project?

I don't know if there is a name for the building at 416 Main St. It's in the Central Business District in downtown Houston. According to Houston Time Portal, the building was home to a bar and billiard parlor named The Cabinet. Moritz Weil Cigars was located there too. The building was also home to Gordon Jewelry Co, according to Arch-ive.org. The lot at 416 Main St is situated between the Byrd Building (420 Main St) / Byrd's Lofts (919 Prairie St) and the State National Bank Building (412 Main St). January 2022 Google Earth image

While I was talking with the Arcosa/Cherry Demolition guys at the Fairfield Waugh they mentioned they have a job coming up in downtown at Texas Ave. & Congress St. I'm thinking to myself that those two streets don't intersect and are parallel streets but didn't say anything. Today I saw which building they were talking about. The Gulfstream Legal Group building at 1300 Texas Ave. It is fenced off. Assuming they will go here when finished at the Fairfield Waugh building. Curious what might be built here? I'm guessing it could temporarily be for the lay down yard/construction trailers for the contractor who will be building the new hotel across the street. https://gulfstreamlegal.com