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  1. Discovered a new Sweeney & Coombs Jewelry store location in the publication Ladies' Messenger, Volume 2, number 1 dated January 1888. Confused about the address. Was Main Street renumbered after this? Wouldn't this be the location of 310 Main Street? Sweeney & Coombs, The Leading Jewelers, No. 61 Main Street, Corner of Preston, Houston, - - Texas. Watch and Jewelry Repairing a Specialty.
  2. Does anyone know or have any history for the 2 major alarm system companies for police & fire? American District Telegraph (ADT) & Gamewell Fire Alarm systems. When did each 1st come to Houston, where where they located (address) & when did they last perform service? Was either tied in with Western Union as a subsidiary?
  3. 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
  4. https://realtynewsreport.com/2020/01/09/redo-underway-at-the-1001-fannin-tower-in-downtown-houston/ HOUSTON – (Realty News Report) – A multi-million-dollar renovation is underway at the 49-story 1001 Fannin building in downtown Houston. The 1.3 million square-foot Class A office building is located about three blocks from Discovery Green park. The tower’s modernization project includes a new 8,000-square-foot fitness center adjacent to an all new tunnel-level tenant lounge fully equipped with a variety of entertainment features, along with seating and gaming areas. Hotel-style enhancements to the building’s main lobbies have been completed and include new escalators, artistic lighting, and a new coffee bar with open seating areas offering a matrix of collaboration opportunities for tenants and their guests. In addition, a full renovation of the building’s North and South exterior plazas is slated to begin this month. The new improvements will provide collaborative lounging areas to further elevate the tenant experience both inside and outside of the building. Expected completion date for all building renovations is mid-2020 with the addition of a building conference center anticipated for delivery in 2021. “We have been involved with 1001 Fannin since it was originally built, and we are excited about the building’s future success,” stated Patrick Meara, president of UIDC Management, LLC, which Is the general partner of the tower’s ownership group. “The building’s location neighboring Discovery Green, Greenstreet, several new multi-family projects in the area and the Four Seasons hotel has always made it a very compelling option for the Central Business District’s top office tenants, and we are confident that our renovations will truly capture the future of the workplace.” “We are excited that building ownership has moved forward with these renovations at 1001 Fannin. The building has been and will continue to be a solid option for tenants looking for elevated office space in downtown Houston,” says Chip Colvill, CEO and president of Colvill Office Properties.
  5. This is amazing! Otto Taub was Ben Taub's father. I knew he had a cigar store, but I could never find the address attached. Found in the newspaper The Houston Post. dated November 6, 1904. Otto Taub's Cigar Store Horace R. Kelly Co.'s Corona Clear Havana Cigar Now 5 Cents $2.25 for fifty 1007 Congress Avenue
  6. Love this house!! Thought I would share the information I found with HAIF. Anyone know the architect? Or an exact address? A quick browse brought me to finding this: The Henry Fox house, the last mansion on Main Street, occupied the site of the present Exxon Building. So Main Street at Bell Street? If that information is accurate. I assume the neighborhood was Quality Hill. Residence of Henry S. Fox
  7. Forgot where I saw this, but this is dated 1907. I love the buildings and background. Such camp like. The Crystal Creamery Company's Plant, 400 Main Street Sellers of Pure, Unadulterated, Pasteurized Milk
  8. Charlotte Baldwin Allen, wife of Houston founder Augustus Chapman Allen, occupied this two story frame house located at 718 Main at Rusk Avenue. She occupied the home from its original construction in the 1850s until her death at age ninety in 1895. The house was later demolished in 1915. The old home of the Allen family (founders of Huston) Another photograph:
  9. The JOS F. Meyer Company and machine shop at 201 Milam produced and sold a number of goods. It employed blacksmiths and wagon makers. As contractors for the railroad in 1929, the company also handled heavy hardware and automotive equipment. Edit: Photo of the building posted dated 1917.
  10. I found an article dated October 8, 1934 that outlines Jake Freedman's home located at 1220 Chartres Street. Did he not live at the Domain Privee on Old Main Street Road? Or maybe this was a second house, or even his family home? Several applications for membership in this Congregation were announced. Mr. H. Levin of 1803 McGowen, Mr. Jake Freedman of 1220 Chartres Street, and Mr. L. Dittman of 1506 N. Jacinto were proposed by Mr. Godapper. Mr. H. Passman, of 81 Preston Avenue, was proposed by Mr. J.L. Zuber. Mr. Jacob Rosenberg, of 812 Preston, was proposed by Mr. Sam Rosenberg. These applications were favorable acted upon and the Secretary was instructed to so notify them and extend an invitation to our Friday night services.
  11. I have always heard William Marsh Rice owned and operated a dry goods stand. I believe I found it! Talk about a needle in a haystack. This is cool history! From the newspaper Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph dated November 10, 1865: Bargains! Bargains Immense Stock Just Received Per Steamer Wilmington, by E.R. Wells & Co Every description of Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Boots And Shoes, Ladies' Dress Goods Plain and Col'd French Merios, Cotton and Wool Plaids, Flannels Red, White, Yellow, Opera Flannels' Cotton Sheeting, Linen Sheetings, Canton Flannels, Tickings, Linkseys. Complete Assortment At W.M. Rice's Old Stand Main Street. Houston
  12. I had forgotten about the Pla-Mor arcade downtown until you mentioned it. It was on Dallas, between Main and Fannin, across from where Sakowitz would eventually be built. I went there many times as a youngster in the mid-40's. As I remember, it was open-air, on the ground floor of some type of structure that may have been a parking garage. Where did you go to school while living at Playland? You and I are the same age. I am the "gentleman" you mentioned in your first post who was buying a Coke when that horrible accident occurred at Playland in 1959.
  13. I've never even heard of this temple. I searched HAIF and couldn't find anything so I thought I would share. The building looks like it was designed/built between the 1900s through the 1920s. Maybe 1915-ish? Who was the architect, does anyone know? I just discovered this building so I haven't had time to research for an address. It might be located on an Sanborn map, or in the libraries. Cool building though, and awesome history!! Evangelistic Temple - West Capitol and Houston Avenues - Houston, Texas
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I think of it as office-park brutalism. Most of the "classic" modernism was years before these. The plain concrete-facade office building seemed to have its heyday from around the mid 1960s to late 1970s, when architects got sick of it and moved into post-modernism. My guess is that a large part of the rationale for these designs wasn't as much the theoretical tenets of minimalism as much as economics. It must have been relatively cheap to stamp out hundreds of standardized concrete facade units that could be plugged into place. Re: One and Two Allen Center, the exteriors are rather banal but I think the interiors are rather nice, considering.
  17. 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.
  18. 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!!
  19. I was browsing the newspaper The Houston post dated January 10, 1906 and came across an article about a new roller rink about to open. A New Rink Building Being Erected on Main and Lamar. To Be Ideal Structure Messrs. Beach and Bruce Are the Proprietors and Will Be Ready by February 1. Roller skating in Houston is to have the additional stimulus of a new rink, built especially for the purpose. Work has already been begun preliminary to the erection of the building, which will be locate don the southwest corner of Lamar Avenue and Main Street, and, according to the contract, it will be ready for use within eighteen days from yesterday. On the 1st of February the new rink will be formally opened to the public. Messrs. Monta Beach and R.L. Bruce have associated themselves together in this enterprise, and they plan to make it one of the nest arranged structures of the kind in the South. The total coast of the building and equipment will ne $5000 and it will be built in pavilion style. In outside dimensions it will measure 75x150 feet. The superstructure will be wood and the building will be roofed with metal. The walls will rise twelve feet from the floor, and there will be an open space of several feet for ventilation between that and the roof. All around there will be placed two tiers of seats and the center floor will be space for skating. The skating surface will be a floor of hard maple and will be made ideal for the purpose. When skating is not in the season it may be used as a dancing pavilion, it is to skating. In fact, the erection of the proposed structure means the addition of another amusement hall to the city and it be hailed with delight by the young people.-- September 20, 1906: Houston Roller Rink Cor. Main and Lamar Will open for the season Monday morning, Sept. 24 Three Sessions Daily (Except Sunday) Thayer's Band Afternoon and evening Everything new but the title.
  20. 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--
  21. 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
  22. Citing my sourse as the 1940 Downtowner map & Morrison & Fourmy's '43-44 City Directory {pg. 1207}, is the Old historical Western Union {6 story} Bldg. located @ the S/E corner of Main & {915-919} Franklin {w/no Main str. address} standing today? It would have been adjacent to the old SP General office Bldg. {now known as the Bayou lofts}, on the south end of the bldg. If anyone knows current status of bldg. may I request same. Also would love to see some photos of if, wheather or not it is still standing
  23. 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
  24. 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.
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