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Jacob Chesterfield Baldwin and Horace Baldwin Rice went into partnership to form J.C. Baldwin & Company's Houston Transfer Stables. The stables served as the baggage, bus, and transfer line to all the train depots in 1890. Pretty cool depiction I found. -
I found a cool 1910s club this week. Joseph Finger designed the Concordia Club located at 1500 Rusk Street, corner La Branch Street. The club building featured bowling alleys, pool halls, banquet and cabaret hall, and a ballroom.
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Found this amazing Downtown mansion that belonged to Alexander Root and designed by George Dickey in 1894. It looks like the Root family donated their land to the city. Now stands the Root Memorial Square Park.
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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!
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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.
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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
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Not 100% of the address but this is my guess based on the info in the tweet.- 49 replies
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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!
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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!
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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.
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Did this get missed? COA was approved in April. 4 story office building on a currently vacant lot. ShowDoc.aspx (houstontx.gov)
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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/
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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
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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!
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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.
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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. ?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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