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Found this in the publication Hospitals, Sanatoriums, State and Charitable Institutions of the United States and Canada By American Medical Association · 1922. Stunning!! Anyone ever heard of this? Thought I would share. Amazing piece of history here. I wonder if there are any pictures around? Houston Municipal Hospital, Camp Logan, Houston, Tex. Established 1919: municipal: general; 70 beds; outpatient department; A.H. Flickwir, health officer, physician in charge.

I discovered this and wondered if anyone else knows about it. I assume this would be a large size residential mansion in Midtown. I wonder the architect? From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated December 24, 1914. Appeal For Girls. Attention of Benevolent People Directed to Crittenton Home. The following appeal has been issued by the board of control of the Florence Crittenton home of Houston in behalf of the unfortunate girls whom this institution is endeavoring to assist; While the war in Europe is causing such distress and suffering among the people in the war zone, and we relief people in the war zone, while relief has been sent to the suffering one on the other side of the ocean, let us not forget the poor and unfortunate that are among us. As members of the board of control of the Florence Crittenton home of Houston we appeal to the charity-loving people of the city to help us to the extent of your ability in order to assist us in carrying on the great work among the unfortunate girls. The home has been full of girls with their little ones during the past year and any assistance, either much or little, will be a great help to us. Send any donations of clothing and food to the home, 3119 Caroline Street, and money or checks to our treasurer, A.G. Howell, 505 Houston Land and Trust Company building. W.B. Hones, President John Charles Harris, Secretary A.G. Howell, Treasurer Cleveland SeWall, Mrs. F.B. Eastburn Mrs. Norman G. Kittrell Mrs. G. C. Warren Mrs. Charles Stewart, Dr. J. L. Gross

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

Found this cool hospital in the publication Texas State Journal of Medicine dated 1927 and thought I would share with HAIF. Would love to know if there is anyone out there that knows about this place? I do have a question. Who were apart of the staff? Owner, director, chief doctor, and on fourth. I assume Ellen Ray was the owner and chief operator? Ellen Ray Hospital and Maternity Home A quiet, secluded home for sick people, with sixteen beautiful, high-class rooms, including operation room. Strictly ethical. Something different. 6604 Avenue Q, Magnolia Park, Texas (Houston, Texas.) Telephone Wayside 2212-M.

Found this old, cool, hospital this week. Thought I would share my findings. From the newspaper The Houston Informer dated November 1, 1919. The business card advertisement: Dr. F.F. Stone Medicine and Surgery Grand Medical Director K. of P. Associated with Dr. Chas. A. Jackson, Specialist Suite 7 and 8-4191/2 Milam Street Office Phone P. 6958 On Staff Union Hospital 1118 Howard St., Phone P. 782 Residence 1902 Dowling, Phone H. 2303 Calls may be left at People's Pharmacy 815 Prairie, Phone P. 6256 The news article: Union Hospital To Teach Nursing Class Begins Nov. 10 When the announcement was first made last year that Houston physicians had decided to establish a hospital in this city, there were “doubting Thomases” galore and “it-can't-be-done” apostles abound abundantly. These doctors were not deterred nor discouraged by sch idle talk and while others indulged in hot air and would-be knocks, they assiduously applied themselves to the task of giving their people a real hospital with modern methods, facilities, and conveniences. Already their efforts have seen fruition and today the Union Hospital is a permanent adjunct to the race's civil life in this community, and is truly justifies its existence. The hospital is located in Fourth Ward, 1118 Howard Street, corner of Lion and is easily accessible by the automobiles and street cars. A large, two-story structure is employed and the equipment is of a high class order. The following constitute the official roster and staff: Dr. Charles A. Jackson. President; Dr. E.F. Ferrill, vice-president; Dr. H.E. Lee, secretary; Dr. B.J. Covington, treasurer, ; Dr. F.F. Stone, superintendent; Dr. R.O. Roett, resident physician; Miss B.B. Shortt, registered nurse; Drs. J.R. Terrell, E.B. Ramsy, F.L. McDavid-- Telephone Preston 732.

TMC Helix Park!!! This week you can really tell progress on the water fountain by the mixed-use garage. Very cool!! Dynamic Phase 2, Unfortunately, it appears the rebar foundation is being covered in wood casing. I don't think the tower is being built. Helix Park, section 4: Mixed-Use Garage: Dynamic One Collaborative Building:

This skyscraper is amazing!! wow..

Digging continues!!!

As usual, the equipment has been removed. I don't think this has broken ground. This site is unique.

wow!! Edwin Hobby. John H. Kirby. Hobby & Kirby, -- Attorneys and Councellors at Law -- Office rooms 6 and 7 Commercial Bank building, Houston, Texas.

I was looking on Ebay for Historic Houston items and came across a post card from Reno Club - Houston, Texas. Anyone know about this? Are we able to put a date on it? Or a location?

Was the infamous Westbury Water Tower apart of the Westbury Water Works? I see so many people associate the water tower to Westbury High School. Did the high school have it's own water supply tower? Looking at the photograph more, that's' probably a school backed up to the water tower? How weird.

I found this cool aerial photograph of the Highland Village & River Oaks area. Thought I would share. The photo was, apparently, taken in the 1950s. Wow!! So much development has taken place is such a short amount of time! Westheimer Rd & Drexel Dr

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

From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated July 27, 1967. Jacques Duhr Announces the opening of his Belvedere Restaurant & Club specializing in French Cuisine Monday, July 31 Hours 11:30 till 2 P.M. 6:00 till 10:00 Inwood Manor Building 3711 San Felipe - NA 2-6033

I never knew Ben Taub was the President of the DePelcin Faith Home. Very cool!! Is the actual address on Sandman? The campus was big, maybe there was several addresses? From the newspaper Labor Messenger dated September 20, 1946: Members of the Houston Labor and Trades Council and the Women's Auxiliary of the Council will have a dinner meeting at the DePelchin Faith Home Tuesday, September 24, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will offer Council members and their wives, Auxiliary members and their husbands an opportunity to get first hand information about Community Chest agencies and their work. Ben Taub, president of Faith Home, will be host to the group and will discuss with them the work of Faith Home--

I (believe) I found the campus on Google Earth. Very cool!! I do have a question. Was there one school campus for girls and another campus, down the block, for boys? On Google Earth, it appears there was two separate campuses blocks away from each other. Wonder if I'm even reading it correctly? I see more than the 4 buildings outlined above in the newspaper article. 1944: 1953: 1978, the two separate campuses are no more. Now a different structure and grown over with grass. Present day 2023, looks like the parcel is back to 3 separate campuses. I believe Harris County owns the whole parcel. Half of the land is a juvenile facility and the other half is a park. I see lots of available land for development

Edit: Also known as, in the 1910s, as Girl's Industrial School. Regarding the different addresses. I found this on a forum: My 1955 Bellaire City Directory showed Burnett-Bayland Home at 5500 Clarewood and I remember it being situated on a large piece of property at the corner of Clarewood (a residential street) and Chimney Rock Rd. (one of Bellaire's main thoroughfares). My 1965 Bellaire City Directory showed the address as 6100 Chimney Rock.(Remodeled, I believe the location of the entrance changed.) The orphanage closed and I'm pretty sure the property is now a bootcamp for troubled youth. Girls From Broken Homes Are Given Cheerful Lift Mary Burnett School at Bellaire Warmly Receives Orphans and Innocent Victims of Wrecked Domestic Establishments, Ushers Them Into the Happy Cluster of Joyous Youngsters and at Last They Begin to Unfold Just as Truly as a Bud Suddenly Opens Broken Homes! Broken hearts! It is the innocent victims of the broken homes and hearts that she Mary Burnett School for Girls picks up and gives a normal. happy girlhood, teaching them ideals and work that will make them useful citizens in after years. Miss Ethel Alice Claxton, superintendent of the school at Bellaire, asserts-- 1: Cornelia Ennis Cargill Cottage, constructed in 1917, one of the units of a remarkable school for girls in the environs of Houston. Two classes of girls are in the school, orphans and wards of the court. 2: Gray Cottage, built in 1914, the first unit of the school which now houses 160 young girls. The building also contains the school offices as well as quarters for a number of the girls. “All of the girls,” The superintendent does not believe in high walls and board fences, with watchdog methods. 3: Wash day at the school. The girls do all their own laundering, with modern machine. Indeed, the student take a four months course in laundry work, showing one the great practical phase of the school. 4: Miss Ethel Alice Claxton, superintendent of the Mary Burnett School for Girls at Bellaire, who assets that “each girl is an individual something very human that we believe we can change into a wonderful personality.” 5: The famous “shack,” which was built in 1916, when the school was filled to overflowing. It has served many purposes.

I was reading the newspaper The Southwest Citizen dated April 27, 1950 and came across a very cool home! The man who started the construction empire WS Bellows!! WS Bellows has worked with countless projects in the Texas Medical Center and even has a street named after the family. I wonder the architect of this West University home? Was Mr. Bellows the original owner/family to live there? Citizens In The News -- Warren S. Bellows. 1728 North Boulevard, appointed chairman of the Harris County port commission, succeeding Wilson Saville, 3217 Groveland, who retired.

Photo. Houston Infirmary building exterior. The Infirmary is identified by a sign on the roof. The long, two-story building features a balcony and has a fence separating it from the road. A few people stand outside. The Infirmary, located at 1008 Washington Ave.

wow!! I've never heard of this and thought I would share. I was reading the newspaper The Texas Jewish Herald dated September 13, 1928 and came across a cool business advertisement. The ad was for The Big S located on Main Street Road at the Bridge. In 1928, are they speaking about South Main & Braeswood at the bayou? Or would they be speaking of Old Main Street Road? Cool piece of history. Would love to know more. At Sundown Meet Me At The Big S Main Street Road at the Bridge You'll Like This Place Like An Old Friend Under Personal Management of Chas. E. Duggan / Chas N. Burns Phone Hadley 0671

I'm not sure if you're still reading @almadenmike but I found the building in question! Thanks for Ross for hinting at the building earlier in the thread. This is cool!! Amazing. Architects were Sanguinet, Staats, & Gottlieb. Wyatt C. Hedrick wasn't a partner at that time? From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated December 30, 1917: The New Convent of the Good Shepherd Cornerstone Is To be Laid This Afternoon With Ceremony, Vicar - General Kiwin to Officiate. --- The site selected for the home comprises 10 acres of land on the Richmond road, just six blocks from the end of the Montrose street car line. It is within easy access of the city, yet its location offers the seclusion necessary for an institution of this kind. The house of the Good Shepherd has no racial or denomination lines. Catholic, Jew, Gentile; any race or creed are received in the home without being questioned and without being required to be embrace the Catholic religion. The same--

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.

Noticed this old Loopnet listing recently. So that's what used to be located at the present (water retention ditch?) located to the right of the town home development. Pretty cool, you can still see the old entrance and gate into the business! Marcus Oil & Chemical Year Built: 1979 Building Size: 328,910 SF Property Type: Industrial Property Subtype: Distribution Warehouse Lot Size: 20.30 AC 328,910 square foot truck high tilt wall warehouse / office facility with 14 floating truck docks plus ramp to ground level on 20.3 acres including 5.3 acres undeveloped for expansion. Over 27,000 sq. ft. is insulated & climate controlled by 5 - 10 ton chillers. Also has 6 rail doors to 2 rail spurs 1100 feet in length. Support column spacing is 40 Ft. x 32 Ft. with minimum 24 Ft. clear overhead height. The entire facility is protected by a fire water sprinkler system. Includes a beautiful 2 story atrium office building with 234 designated parking spaces. This is in an ideal location on US Alternate 90 (11515 South Main Street) just off I-610 within site of the Astrodome in Houston with easy access to the Port of Houston. Property contains 20.3 acres fronted on US Alt 90 (South Main Street at Stella Link) with 5.3 acres on the north undeveloped as room for expansion. There is a detention pond eliminating any chance of flooding. This property also contains 2 rail spurs and switch that have all recently been rebuilt. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/14022048/11515-South-Main-Street-Houston-TX/ A 2006 view of the Marcus Oil & Chemical complex. Current, 2023 view of the vacant land. Now a retention pond?

I recently discovered these old 1960 apartments in the Greenway Plaza neighborhood. wow!! I would post a picture but unfortunately it's watermarked. Does anyone have an image they can share? Who was the architect on this very strange, bizarre multifamily complex?