sevfiv Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Kudos to the current owners (Club Quarters - who weren't named in the article...) for taking the steps to get this designation. Joseph Finger would be proud.http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories...63&ana=e_duhttp://www.clubquarters.info/houston.asphttp://hotels.arch-ive.org/txst 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pineda Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 (edited) thank goodness somebody fixed up this hotel, it was a true dump for many years! Edited February 4, 2008 by pineda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 thank goodness somebody fixed up this hotel, it was a true dump for many years! It's a miracle! We had to stand next to it for months (bus) while streets were being redone and was quite dangerous and a sad sight. Seems like just the other day that several floors pancaked while under construction. They thought it was alost cause at that point but continued on. There needs to be a BIG celebration with Mayor White present! Cheers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) Kudos to the current owners (Club Quarters - who weren't named in the article...) for taking the steps to get this designation. Joseph Finger would be proud.The Texas State Hotel in downtown Houston has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.This is good news of course, but let's not forget what this really means. The National Register is only a list of places that some people regard as "worthy of preservation." Being on the list does nothing to preserve a historic structure, and it provides no protection from demolition by developers. It just guarantees the developer will get some negative publicity when the deed is done, and that's about it. Edited February 5, 2008 by FilioScotia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmariar Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Was the Texas State also called the San Jacinto?So suggested the GHPA bit linked in Pineda's link, and the 1929 article seems consistent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Ah, thanks guys.Found some information about the hotel in the mid-eighties that i wasn't aware of - UT leased the hotel to a hotel management partnership (who did not maintain it well), had a dispute with them, and then "emptied" the hotel of its residents (about 250 people) - most elderly, disabled, etc. UT then put it up for auction and it was sold to Texaco, the only bidder.Sawyer said his income is the monthly $490 disability check he gets from the U.S. government. Because of wounds he suffered fighting in the Army in World War II's Pacific Theater, he has worked only sporadically as a counter clerk and short order cook, he said.Sawyer gets by with the help of another longtime hotel resident, Charles Harvey Parks, also 65.Parks said he bides his time running errands for Sawyer and caring for his cousin and roommate, Robert Kinney, 56.Within three hours of the switch at the hotel, Parks had found a room at another downtown hotel for Kinney and himself. But Parks was still irate that the Texas State Hotel "family" had to break up without a month's eviction notice."I thought there was a law to stop something like this," he said.Parks has lived in the hotel since January 1984, using monthly Social Security checks to pay the way, in one of the few rooms where the air conditioning still functions.http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1986_249412http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1986_250899http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1987_489994 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downtown JuJuB Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Does anyone have any info on whether or not Club Quarters maintained any of the original architecture in the interior? The exterior is beautiful - I’d love to think they preserved some of the history when it was renovated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EspersonBuildings Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 I'm almost sure the lobby is original (restored). The molding is quite beautiful. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I think they got as close as possible to the original interior, bypassing some unfortunate 1960s redos. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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