A couple of historic Houston photographs

[editor]

The University of Minnesota has digitized the photo library of the American Terra Cotta company and put it online. It features hundreds of fantastic old photographs of buildings across the country, some by famous photographers.

http://special.lib.umn.edu/manuscripts/digital/atcsearch.html

Two are from Houston:

The Majestic Theater

The Old National Insurance Company Building

[Subdude]

Anyone know the location of the Old National Insurance Company Building?

[sevfiv]

Neat!

It was at 5619 Fannin, adjacent to the Warwick. The current 5619 is the MFAH building/garage but the old 5619 had to have been south of Ewing according to the Historicaerials map. Apartments lined both sides of San Jacinto from Calumet to Ewing:

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=7.27682619386921E-06&lat=29.7239771921243&lon=-95.3889641924652&year=1964

Old National also had locations at 7434 Park Place (the Odd Fellow's Building near Telephone):

http://www.arch-ive.org/parkplace7430.php

and 2510 Broad St. I need to get over there - it's a cute little place:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2510+Broad+Houston,+TX&hl=en&ll=29.705844,-95.306772&spn=0.006933,0.009645&sll=29.705844,-95.306772&sspn=0.006971,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=29.705796,-95.306861&panoid=K2uMRLO2BDkfpOhpaF9BYQ&cbp=12,15.16,,0,1.9

[Materene]

Neat!

It was at 5619 Fannin, adjacent to the Warwick. The current 5619 is the MFAH building/garage but the old 5619 had to have been south of Ewing according to the Historicaerials map. Apartments lined both sides of San Jacinto from Calumet to Ewing:

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=7.27682619386921E-06&lat=29.7239771921243&lon=-95.3889641924652&year=1964

Old National also had locations at 7434 Park Place (the Odd Fellow's Building near Telephone):

http://www.arch-ive.org/parkplace7430.php

and 2510 Broad St. I need to get over there - it's a cute little place:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2510+Broad+Houston,+TX&hl=en&ll=29.705844,-95.306772&spn=0.006933,0.009645&sll=29.705844,-95.306772&sspn=0.006971,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=29.705796,-95.306861&panoid=K2uMRLO2BDkfpOhpaF9BYQ&cbp=12,15.16,,0,1.9

I'm happy to have been one to actually view movies from the Majestic, course that photo was old as dirt before I first went to the Theater in the early 50's, make's a person wonder how they made enough to pay for that fine building charging a nickel admission. I think around 55 possibly 54 it was 20 cents for an adult 0 for a child. Now you need to take out a personal loan to go to the movies.

[NenaE]

Nice b/w shots.

I'm not familiar with that second one, at all, reminds me of the YMCA bldg. on Hwy 225, near Gulfgate (I-45).