H-TownBornAndBred

Joan Hill kept her horses at the Cyandy Stables which were on S. Gessner close to the bayou. Back then this was beyond the city limits and, more or less out in the country. Houston was a much different place then. The pace was much slower, the city much smaller, and there was still plenty of greenspace even in the inner city.

The name of the stables was actually Chatsworth Farms... stables & grand old plantation style home owned by Ash Robinson and later his personal physician Dr. Howard Seigler (& the father-in-law of the lady prosecutor who recently ran for DA) ...it was on S. Gessner, between Bissonnet & S Braeswood before they tore it down and built a Public Storage where it stood... I learned to ride English saddle there, on Robert Hill's horse Tony... kept my own gift from Dr. Seigler there as well, a dapple grey ex-jumper that Joan had shown, until it was sold to a family (whose daughter I went to STM & SAA with, by strange coincidence) who had it for a few years before selling it to the entity that razed it... spent many a grand time there... and miss it still...

608 Fannin St. (at Texas)

endangered

Historic name: Sterling Building

Current name: Texas Tower (vacant)

Completed: 1931

Architect: Hedrick & Gottlieb

I found the above info while perusing www.houstondeco.org - I then found YOUR thread by Googling "Sterling Building"+Houston, because I was looking for anything relating to saving the endangered building. So many of the great jewels of the H-Town skyline have been demolished in the name of progress!! I'd love to see this building be saved from the wrecking ball, and possibly even restored to it's former art deco granduer using the original blueprints. Does anyone know if there is an active effort to get the Sterling Building on the Historic Landmark registry, or if any efforts at all are currently being made to save her?